Social Transformation Quotes:

I believe that personal healing is a path to social transformation.

- Daniel Beaty

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Believe, Healing, Social Transformation, Personal Healing

If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

- C. Wagner

topic: Three, Social Transformation, Violence

Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

- Harville Hendrix

topic: Social Transformation, Intervention, Therapeutic

Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Transformation, Social, Social Transformation, Personal Transformation

The great work of social transformation begins with the first small step of stopping, calming, relaxing, reflecting and acting in a beneficial way.

- Satish Kumar

source: Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

topic: Acting, Small Steps, Stopping, Social Transformation

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

- Van Jones

source: "Bridging the gap between environmental and social justice" by Lauren Rabaino, mustangnews.net. April 4, 2008.

topic: Mistake, Saint, Transformation, Social Transformation

Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Powerful, Moral, Transformation, Kings Speech, Non Violence

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive]

- Thurgood Marshall

source: "RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan" by Russell Berman, thehill.com. May 11, 2010.

topic: Believe, Government, Philadelphia, Defective, Constitutional Government

One important part of historical recording is to get people of another generation to understand the feelings, the passion that went into social transformation. That's why oral history is so valuable.

- Alix Kates Shulman

topic: Passion, People, Feelings, Oral History, Social Transformation

To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.

- Antonin Scalia

source: "Who is Antonin Scalia and why is he out of touch with changing social views?" by Dan Roberts, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2015.

topic: Sex, Decision, Gay Marriage, Court Decision, Social Transformation

Turkey is going through an incredible economic, political and social transformation. What is most important is that Turkey has been the owner of this transformation. Ownership has been the key to success.

- Ali Babacan

source: "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

topic: Turkeys, Political, Important, Social Transformation

I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research

- Otto Scharmer

topic: Thinking, Self, Views, Social Science, Social Transformation

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

- Fredric Jameson

topic: Winning, Degrees, Machines, Social Transformation

Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed...

- Hizkias Assefa

topic: Ignorance, Profound, Justice, Mediation, Social Transformation

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Media, Tools, Littles, Robust, Like Facebook

Corporations, consumers, and citizens must begin acting in concert to create a powerful third pillar of social transformation if we hope to meet the social challenges we currently face with equal force. This begins with corporations that choose to alter how they practice capitalism in two ways to serve the greater good.

- Simon Mainwaring

topic: Powerful, Practice, Two, Social Transformation, Greater Good