#cia

Often people ask, "How can you say you're blessed to have a son with Down syndrome?" My outlook on life has forever changed. I see my own challenges differently. He's always showing me that life is so much bigger than self. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#inspirational #life #parent #parenting #special-needs

We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#activism #inspirational #philosophy #protest #social-change

We are the ones we've been waiting for. ↗

— Colin Beavan

#green-living #inspirational-quotes #social-change #change

And so a miserable but possible scenario is that countries in the bottom billion oscillate between the traps and limbo, perhaps switching in the process from one trap to another.. Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. The societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within. In every society of the bottom billion there are people working for change, but usually they are defeated by the powerful internal forces stacked against them. We should be helping the heroes. So far, our efforts have been paltry: through inertia, ignorance, and incompetence, we have stood by and watched them lose. Let me be clear: we cannot rescue them. These societies of the bottom billion can only be rescued from within. ↗

— Paul Collier

#change

If we want to change the systems we are part of - our countries, communities, organizations, and families - we must also see and change ourselves ↗

— Adam Kahane

#change

we are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society ↗

— Errico Malatesta

#politics #social-change #change

It is inconceivable that our mind does not change according to where we might be, and how we perceived in it. ↗

— Tsan-Kuo Chang

#change

It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social, locked away from the world and silently staring at a computer screen, but that, as psychologists will tell you is the way we operate. When we are at the maximum of our disconnect we also are ready to connect and feel the need for interaction. ↗

— David Amerland

#loneliness #social #social-instinct #social-networks #business

The real determinant of society is hidden behind the state and the economy: it is the way in which our everyday activity is organised, the subordination of our doing to the dictates of abstract labour, that is, of value, money, profit. It is this abstraction which is, after all, the very existence of the state. If we want to change society, we must stop the subordination of our activity to abstract labour, do something else. ↗

— John Holloway

#marxism #social-change #state #change

I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers. ↗

— Orafoura

#books #humor #list #rating #ratings