Quotes about Change

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.

First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often if feels as though you were moving backwards, and you lose sight of your goal: but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by.

We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.

Our goal is to create a beloved community and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.

We can all get more together than we can apart. And this is the way we gain power. Power is the ability to achieve purpose, power is the ability to effect change, and we need power.

you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

The arch of History is long, but it bends towards justice.