{"quotes":[{"text":"We refused to be what world want us to be- BAD. We are what we are- GOOD. And that's the way it is going to be.","author":"Nurudeen Ushawu","tags":["good-and-evil","good-deeds","good-over-evil","good-thoughts","good-vs-evil","goodness","life-philosophy","life-and-sayings","qoute-of-the-day","of-the-day-work","social-change","social-justice","society"],"id":30,"author_id":"Nurudeen+Ushawu"},{"text":"..Things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.","author":"Muhammad Yunus","tags":["advocacy","complication","poverty-alleviation","simplicity","social-change"],"id":6461,"author_id":"Muhammad+Yunus"},{"text":"People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to.","author":"Simon S. Tam","tags":["character","empowerment","immigration","innovation","inspiration","integrity","love","passion","social-change","social-justice","social-justice-power","success"],"id":12795,"author_id":"Simon+S.+Tam"},{"text":"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","citizen-power","citizens","inspirational","inspiring","leadership","leadership-development","political","political-philosophy","political-science","politics","responsible-citizen","social-change","social-norms","social-psychology","social-reform","social-reformer","social-science","social-sciences","social-work","social-worker","social-workers","society","society-problem","society","society-thinking"],"id":16617,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.","author":"Ericka Huggins","tags":["change","love","power","social-change","transformation"],"id":20280,"author_id":"Ericka+Huggins"},{"text":"It's all about the people. It's all for the people. It's all to the people. That's our ultimate goal.","author":"Nurudeen Ushawu","tags":["better-world","goodness-in-life","humanity","social-change","society"],"id":23397,"author_id":"Nurudeen+Ushawu"},{"text":"Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.","author":"Muhammad Yunus","tags":["poverty","social-change"],"id":26385,"author_id":"Muhammad+Yunus"},{"text":"When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.","author":"Muhammad Yunus","tags":["charity","poor","poverty","social-change"],"id":28746,"author_id":"Muhammad+Yunus"},{"text":"When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["change","cultural-differences","culture","environmental-changes","social-change","society"],"id":29770,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"And I see a lot of us, the producers, who write the books and make the books, accepting this--letting commodity profiteers sell us like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write. Books aren't just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable--but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.","author":"Ursula K. Le Guin","tags":["art","social-change","writing"],"id":39665,"author_id":"Ursula+K.+Le+Guin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":157,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}