Viewed
with one disposition, history has so far been a horrible
accumulation of oppression and suffering. Viewed with
another disposition, however, history has chronicled
humans discovering their own finer potentials and
together mounting heroic offensives to attain them
- against monarchy, feudalism, slavery, Jim Crow racism,
apartheid, sexual subjugation, second class citizenship,
sexism, heterosexism, dictatorship, one party rule,
capitalism, and coordinatorism (calling itself socialism)
- and seeking, in their place, equity, justice, and
freedom. The gains humans have made have been steady
and plentiful. Now a major leap is possible. Consistent
with past efforts, we can now attain fully liberatory
goals, including, I think, participatory economics
and also alternative structures for polity, culture,
and kinship. We have only to make the effort.
-- Michael Albert
"I
wish people would love everybody else the way they
love me. It would be a better world."
-- Muhammad Ali
"No
man should think himself a zero, and think he can
do nothing about the state of the world."
-- Bernard Baruch
The
power of a movement lies
in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of
people. This change is not the result of force but
of dedication, of moral persuasion.
-- Steve Biko
"We
are working to help people become better people; then
this will become a better world."
-- Eva
Burrows
"When
we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that
each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred,
then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each
moment. When we live at this level, we participate
in the creation of a better world."
-- Scout Cloud Lee
"You
cannot hope to build a better world without improving
the individuals. To that end each of us must work
for his or her own improvement, and at the same time
share a general responsibility for all humanity, our
particular duty being to aid those to whom we think
we can be most useful."
-- Marie Curie
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"With
realization of one's own potential and self-confidence
in one's ability, one can build a better world."
-- Dalai
Lama (1935 -) |
"You
are the people who are shaping a better world. One
of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."
-- Dalai
Lama (1935 -)
"We
also learn that this country and the Western world
have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship,
we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable
to making a better world. In a life of learning that
is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all."
-- John Hope Franklin
"What
the people want is very simple. They want an America
as good as its promise."
-- Barbara Jordan
"We
can work together for a better world with men
and women of goodwill, those who radiate the
intrinsic goodness of humankind."
-- Wangari
Maathai |
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"We
have always held to the hope, the belief, the
conviction that there is a better life, a better
world, beyond the horizon."
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt |
This
country will not be a good place for any of
us to live in unless we make it a good place
for all of us to live in.
-- Theodore
Roosevelt |
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"You
must believe that you can help bring about
a better world. A good society is produced
only by good individuals, just as truly as
a majority in a presidential election is produced
by the votes of single electors."
-- Bertrand
Russell
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"Of
all of the forces that make for a better world, none
is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope"
-- Charles Sawyer
The
only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you're
going to lose, because somebody has to fight them
and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody
who believes as you do wins.
-- I.F. Stone, journalist
"We
must build a new world, a far better world -- one
in which the eternal dignity of man is respected."
-- Harry S. Truman
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"My
satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing
a better world."
-- Faye
Wattleton |
I'm
trying to show by my actions that you can make a far
better world if you just care enough. That's all you
have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness
a day can do it.
-- Betty
Williams
