Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
Vicente FoxRead
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Change originates from grassroots efforts rather than top-down initiatives.
This quote emphasizes the importance of grassroots movements in driving change, particularly highlighting the role of small and medium-sized businesspeople in this process. Vicente Fox suggests that true transformation occurs when individuals from the community actively engage and contribute, rather than waiting for leaders or elites to initiate change.
Themes
ChangeGrassrootsBusinessCommunityTransformation
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community development, one might reference this quote to emphasize local initiatives.
More from Vicente Fox
All quotes →As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in the U.S. economy. They build the homes of those who are attacking them.
Vicente FoxRead
Similar quotes
I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents are making such a change in the world right now. The more open-minded these kids are being raised, the more hope I have for the future.
Jinkx MonsoonRead
You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.
Deepak ChopraRead
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor HugoRead
I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man's-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.
Monty DonRead
We live increasingly in a world of haves and have-nots, of gated communities next to ghettos, of extreme poverty and unbelievable riches. Some enjoy rights that are completely denied to others. Relative inequalities are exploding, and the world's poorest, despite all the advances of globalisation, may even be getting poorer.
Noreena HertzRead
Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.
Susan B. AnthonyRead