Margaret J. Wheatley Quotes

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

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

We all need to stand together and be a part of creating the future we hope to see.

Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.

We, alone, can't change the country. We should do it together.

We cannot change the world alone. To heal ourselves, to restore the earth to life, to create the situations in which freedom can flourish, we must work together in groups.

There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

There is no one left to fix the nation, none but all of us.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish - people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people - and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

My vision for a better Rhode Island starts with a simple idea - we are all in this together.

It's not about someone making a difference on their own; it's about everybody pulling together to make a difference.

We want to inspire people to work together, giving them hope that we can do something even if we cannot do everything.

I think our work as movement leaders isn't just about our own visibility but rather how do we make the whole visible. How do we not just fight for our individual selves but fight for everybody?

America is always stronger when we do things together.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.