“The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.”
Pete Seeger – Folk Singer, Storyteller & Activist
John F Kennedy – President of the United States of America
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
John Lennon – Musician, singer and songwriter
“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.”
Tony Benn – Inspiring British Politician
Five questions for the powerful: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?”
Jared Diamond – Scientist and Author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
“All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.”
Albert Einstein – Scientist
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Geoff Davies – Scientist and Author of The Nature of the Beast: How Economists Mistook Wild Horses for a Rocking Chair
“Change will be resisted by those who find any change threatening, and by those who profit from the present order. They will be overcome not by force, which will only feed their resistance, but by persuasion and by the resolve of the majority that wants a better future.”
“Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn’t quite have.”
Diane Abbott – Britain’s first black woman MP
“In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller – architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor
“It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then dangerous, then there’s a pause and then you can’t find anyone who disagrees with you.”
Tony Benn – Inspiring British Politician
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Angela Davis – political activist, philosopher, academic, and author
“If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.”
Arsene Wenger – Manager, Arsenal FC
” Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. “
Margaret Mead – Cultural anthropologist
“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
Maya Angelou – poet, singer and civil rights activist
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
Arundhati Roy – author, human rights and environmental activist