Quotes about Change

When you can't change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

If the Church is to remain faithful to its Lord, it must make a decisive break with the structure of this society by launching a vehement attack on the evils of racism in all forms. It must become prophetic, demanding a radical change in the interlocking structures of this society.

Appeals to reason and religion do not change the balance of power, because both are used to defend the interests of oppressors.

But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

When I worked picking cotton as a boy with my grandparents, when blacks were moral and hard-working, we loved the country, too. It only makes sense to love the place where you were born - especially the United States of America. But as blacks fell for the lies of socialism and communism, they also fell away from love.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.