Jane Addams Quotes

That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

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

Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.

Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

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

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

If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

The first step in community organization is community disorganization.

I want society to feel they are part of a process of change.

When we make these decisions that we're going to commit ourselves to making a difference in the life of one person every single day, what happens is we actually build a whole generation of citizen leaders.

I've done community organizing my whole life and I think to myself, as an organizer, we don't wait for people to come to us and say, 'Help us organize something.' We go out into the community, and we bring the skills to a group of people to organize themselves.

Social actions means that you find an issue in your community, and you create an initiative to solve that issue or to help people.

I'm convinced democracy will grow from the ground up, from the community.

You know, some things you can't change, but you can start from the youth to change the future.

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

I believe that one of the most important things to learn in life is that you can make a difference in your community no matter who you are or where you live.

All social change begins with a conversation.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

Personally, I don't think it's possible to do great things alone or through individual actions. On the contrary, I think it is only possible to know what to do in a specific moment once you have understood the zeitgeist, and it is only possible to move things forward if you have a sense of responsibility. And that is exactly the goal I have set for myself: to try to encourage France and the French people to change and develop further.

People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone.

The people are the only ones capable of transforming society.