Social Change Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old social change quotes, social change sayings, and social change proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. Cameron Sinclair
Every great moment of social change was once a confirmed impossibility. People's determination in the face of overwhelming odds has, time and again, triumphed over what seems impossible. This is what you tell yourself. Tim Winton
You keep plugging away--that's the way social change takes place. That's the way every social change in history has taken place: by a lot of people, who nobody ever heard of, doing work. Noam Chomsky
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. Gunnar Myrdal
You can use principles of the free market to drive social change. Leila Janah
Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism. Richard Cohen
I have long been convinced that families are the primary agents of social change in any society. Elise M. Boulding
The spirituality that we need to develop for social change is one that mobilizes us for social change. Marshall B. Rosenberg
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. Marshall McLuhan
Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role. Assata Shakur
Social change comes through people. Paul Watson
All social change begins with a conversation. Margaret J. Wheatley
All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders. Gary North