Quotes about Change

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.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

If we are going to bring about change, then men, for goodness sake, stand up and stand for the right. And I say, "power to the women".