Ilyasah Shabazz Quotes

I like talking about it, I like talking about world change. I like talking about things that you want to do in your community.

Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups and locales and then bubbles up and aggregates to larger vectors of change.

Turmoil is everywhere, and the whole world is waiting for solutions to come from the top down. That's not how it works - community change from the bottom up makes a real difference.

I really believe in sharing my story to improve social behaviors in the nation.

Public service and community organizing and movement building is such a part of my DNA that it's really hard to separate it.

I believe activism is the true source of change in the world. Pushing to change social structures in communities that you are a part of is critical for making real lasting change.

Every single person has the power to change the world and help people.

I did not dedicate my life to making Baltimore a safer and more just place because it was easy.

Philanthropy and social change work are at their best when they are driven by your values and connected to what you care about most.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

I don't want young people to think they can't make a difference because they don't have money.

My husband, Andrew Shue, is the co-founder of Do Something, and we both speak and present at awards ceremonies. It's absolutely amazing and humbling to see all the work so many young people are contributing to better their communities on both a local and global front.

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action.

I am not a hoodlum. I'm a community organizer.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.

I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

Using political tools to change social conditions won't work.

I'm one of those people that thinks the world changes in smaller and in more mysterious ways than a lot of people like to think. A lot of traditional charities and organizations do things that on the surface seem like a good idea, but it doesn't change the way that people think about interacting with other people.

I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

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