#social change

I've worked in the Inuit hamlets of the west coast of Hudson Bay since 1994. Over that time I've been very moved by both the pace of social change there - the loss of traditional ways of seeing the world, the affinity for and comfort with the land - and by the social disarray that change of this pace produces. ↗

— Kevin Patterson

#bay #been #both #change #coast

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#canadian #canadians #change #gain #hard

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#democracy #force #journalism #maintains #progressive

This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress. ↗

— Leon Jouhaux

#change #could #indeed #industrial #instrument

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. ↗

— John Major

#beginning #between #cared #changes #did

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#change #political #process #social #social change

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#back #change #forward #give #political

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#change #first #necessary #resistance #say

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement. ↗

— James T. Walsh

#change #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #fortifying

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#about #action #been #brought #carried