Local Action Quotes

Start where you are, use what you have.

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

Where after all do universal human rights begin? In small places, closes to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: The neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

I love focusing on what we have to do right here in Lexington.

Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.

We have a big platform we can use to make change in this country. It starts with going home to our own cities and making change there. It starts with encouraging people to vote and using our platform to talk to people with power in this country to create change.

What we have ignored is what citizens can do and the importance of real involvement of the people versus just having somebody in Washington make a rule.

You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world

Global vision, local win.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

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.

No matter what the issues are, it has to be handled at the grassroots. When you take part in something, even though that movement may lose, the juices start flowing and you feel you count. You count. Well, that's pretty important.

If I've learned one thing as a state leader, it's that California will never fulfill its truest potential if we wait for Washington to change on its own.

There is plenty to do, for each one of us, working on our own hearts, changing our own attitudes, in our own neighborhoods.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

Use your voice on the local level where it has the potential to be more widely heard.

Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

I will work hard at the federal level to defend our progress on climate change, but we know that forward progress on climate must happen locally.