#social change

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

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

— Andrew Vachss

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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

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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

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Law cannot stand aside from the social changes around it. ↗

— William J. Brennan

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I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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Before 'Schindler's List,' I wouldn't have believed movies had a lot of power for social change. ↗

— Liam Neeson

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