If everyone is a changemaker, there's no way a problem can outrun a solution
Interpretation
When everyone takes initiative to create change, solutions will inevitably emerge for any problem.
This quote emphasizes the power of collective action and individual responsibility in driving change. It suggests that if each person contributes to finding solutions, no problem will be too great to overcome, as the collective effort and creativity of individuals can outpace challenges.
In practice
During a conference on social innovation, this quote could inspire attendees to think collaboratively about solutions.
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one's willingness to give oneself permission. To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
Everyone says you've got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.
Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.
We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
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