(1119 quotes found)
“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
Cesar Chavez
“Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.”
Dave Barry
“If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community”
George Bernard Shaw
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“Scriptural lessons not put into practice are poison; a meal is poison to him who suffers from indigestion; a social gathering is poison to a poverty stricken person; and a young wife is poison to an aged man.”
Chanakya
“The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.”
Lee Iacocca
“I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. And that's really it. You know, if I really wanted to enact social change… I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.”
Jon Stewart
“Like dogs, bicycles are social catalysts that attract a superior category of people”
Chip Brown
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Shirley Chisholm
