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“Men change their dispositions as they change their climate.”
Marcus Clarke (1846–1881) said by 1881 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Home Letters", in A Marcus Clarke Reader (1963)
“Ms. Bouayach quoted Nelson Mandela’s belief that "education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. She underlined that this idea extends beyond achieving sustainable development, fighting climate change, promoting equality and human rights or building a better future. It plays a crucial role in maintaining peace and preventing atrocities and violations.”
Amina Bouayach (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to make it clear to the world that all these efforts are aimed at promoting democracy in The Gambia, because we all seek change, and those in the diaspora also desire positive change for our country.”
Isatou Touray (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Honourable members, over the past two decades, a number of successful initiatives were put in place to facilitate the use of the available science for policy and action. Together with the Presidential Climate Change Commission, we will finalise the development of a medium-term climate change research and development roadmap.”
Trusty Gina wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a graduate, we are commissioning you to go back to your ministries and give back. Go back and give back. Kenya and Africa are hungry for souls on fire to serve and to serve sincerely and to lead change. You are the change that is well informed about public service.”
Sally Kosgei (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People, generally speaking, are migrating because they’re looking for a better life, because they’re looking for opportunities, because they want to be sure that they can provide food, clothing, and education for their children. They’re moving from one place to the other, because of climate change and the impact of climate change on their livelihoods, on their opportunities.”
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What if we didn't have to adapt our lifestyle to sustainability, but adjusted our sustainable designs to the way we want to live? Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.”
Bjarke Ingels (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My aim in this chapter is to characterize the change of heart that plays a role in forgiveness—in giving up warranted blaming reactive attitudes. I present this in the context of developing a Kantian account of what forgiveness is and why we need it, drawing on his moral psychology to characterize the relevant change of heart.”
Lucy Allais wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are quite correct about the reality of climate change threats in Africa (and the entire world) as well as the relatively low level of awareness of climate change issues by the African society. This apparent ignorance cuts across different facets of the society including private and public sectors, civil societies organizations, professionals, farmers etc.”
Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For consciousness on the part of individuals to build capacity in adapting to climate change effects irrespective of his/her field in the economy in order to adapt to climate change. Activities that lead to pollution of the environment must be curtailed.”
Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It looks like a small change, but it’s a big change. Who wants to take tablets for six months? Wouldn’t you rather take them for four months? But that is still not enough. We are looking at how we can shorten it even further. In fact, we are competing with our colleagues in HIV care. We say people in HIV care only started their work yesterday, but now, they are doing test and treat.”
Harriet Mayanja-Kizza (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mummy will always say you can’t change the world but you can change the little around you.”
Anita Uwagbale (born 1976) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: . THE NATION (Nigeria), 22 May 2016
“I have aimed to make my own contributions through creating a fellowship programme that offers opportunities for young African women to competently and confidently articulate feminist ideas for change in order to champion change in the male dominated spaces that shape their lives.”
Funmi Olonisakin (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...behavioural change in most parts of the world in which religion remains deeply rooted in people’s consciousness is rendered possible when religious leaders start speaking to the necessity of that change as part of what makes a person more faithful.”
Azza Karam (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People can resist change at times, but change is important if you want to go forward.”
Ole Gunnar Solskjær (born 1973) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: nytimes (28 February 2025)
“A culture of impunity has, indeed, grown through the years. Elections have not and will not change this situation... We need to change from the bottom-up, from individuals to families, from families to communities. We need to learn new values that will transform our cultures from within.”
Orlando Beltran Quevedo (born 1939) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: There is mourning and pain, but our journalistic work at the service of the Gospel is strengthened,” President of Bishops' Commission for Mass Media tells Fides, in the aftermath of the Maguindanao massacre (27 November…
“I believe that if we unlock the leadership potential of African women and girls,we can change them into compassionate change makers who will improve not only their circumstances but the circumstances of others.”
Yawa Hansen-Quao (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The area we have chosen is giving, but giving is so multifaceted. Because as the conversation has to change among Africans, it also has to change in the West.”
Jacqueline Asiimwe (born 1970) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sarah Biryomumaisho On Giving & Generosity: An Interview with Jacqueline Asiimwe Retrieved 27 March 2025
“In creolization, you can change, you can be one with the other, you can change with the other while being yourself, you are not one, you are multiple, and you are yourself. You are not lost because you are a multiple. You are not broken apart, because you are multiple.”
Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Manthia Diawara, "One World in Relation: Édouard Glissant in Conversation with Manthia Diawara" (2011), p.7.
“I had to create my own ideas, and those were created by success as well as misfires. I am not afraid of change, rather embrace it. Change means growth.”
Aisha Bowe (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you want to change but you stay in the victim box, you will never change. I have to get out of the whole victim role and make it work”
Natasha Sutherland (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Overall, I feel fulfilled because my voice really added to the change we see today. I started it because action was needed, and action was taken. We’re growing stronger as a movement and we will make the change that we want to make.”
Asmaa James (born 1950) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet Asmaa James: Founder of Sierra Leone’s Black Tuesday Movement, By Jacky Habib, retrieved on February 27, 2020
“I always enjoy coming (to CSU). One of the reasons I do is because this university changed my life, and I think it can change yours as well, but you have to be open to allowing change to happen.”
Polly Baca (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I will do is change their minds…. If I can’t change them, then I will have to work with them.”
Judy Biggert (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were doing things that were close to people’s hearts and things that they could relate to easily; we knew that theatre is about society and impacting on it to change, so we used to do issues about family so that people could feel like they were watching themselves and would change.”
Mariam Ndagire (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We want change but I have learnt that change starts with us. I want to fight for ladies; you deserve to have the best quality of pads. I want us to practice good hygiene because great hygiene is essential to us women,’”
Sheebah Karungi (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are only four different magic tricks: You make something appear. You make something disappear. You make two things change place. Or you change one thing into something else. Everything in magic is a variation on those four.”
Brad Meltzer (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] Of course, he hasn't read Mao Tse-tung. Mao often used the example of the chopsticks that the Chinese use to eat: one moves to pick up the food, but the other remains still. The same applies to politics. Tactics, propaganda, and initiatives can change, but strategy cannot; it cannot change every week.”
Massimo D'Alema (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I have] seen the fallacy of the new sects and trust ere long I shall be united in the original and apostolick church which suffers no change or variation. I trust no man will attribute my motives solely to my love for antient architecture for although I will allow the change has been brought about in me owing to my studies of antient art yet I have still higher reasons.”
Augustus Pugin (1812–1852) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to E. J. Wilson (17 September 1834), quoted in Phoebe B. Stanton, 'Barry and Pugin: A Collaboration', in M. H. Port (ed.), The Houses of Parliament (1976), p. 58
“You have to fight for every right and every access and every penny that is yours by right or that you want to make yours by right. That is true for every sector...Organizing for change in particular sectors on the one hand, and the sectors coming together internationally to change everything on the other, is I think the political question of our time.”
Selma James (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Who can say what events the future holds for us? Perhaps a world conflict will break out and the situation will change radically. [...] Those who provoke the schism are those who change the Faith. I am certain that I belong to the Catholic Church of all times, the eternal Church.”
Marcel Lefebvre (1905–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the early post-colonial phase of a developing country, only political movements devoted to the politics of change have relevance. An analysis of the legacies of colonialism suggests a degree of social debilitation together with economic and social malformations so grave as to make the politics of tinkering within the status quo, irrelevant to our condition. (1: The Setting for Change)”
Michael Manley (1924–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I often hear people say two things about today's society – that we are powerless to do anything to change things and that it doesn't matter because young people in particular don't care about politics. That makes me really annoyed, because what I see every day through our users on Change.org is that the opposite is true.”
Brie Rogers Lowery first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Brie Rogers Lowery at the launch of Be the Change November 4, 2013
“These will be really testing times but really interesting times because I think it is going to change everything. Actually, probably, in some small way, everything in football had to change anyway.”
Leeann Dempster (born 1970) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Easter Road chief executive stresses need for ‘calm heads and clear thinking’,8 April 2020
“You can only change the parts of the world you can touch, so focus on what’s right next to you. If we’re all doing that, it’ll spread.” Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) was the part of the world McCann touched, so that’s what she set out to change.”
Renetta McCann (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are already seeing the effects of climate change on our land and water resources. Deforestation is depleting soil nutrients, and illegal mining is worsening the situation. While we cannot stop some impacts of climate change, we can certainly take action against issues like illegal mining.”
Nana Klutse (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd like to just throw in here at this time that I tell people that it doesn't matter what your age is or what you decide to do when you're eighteen or sixteen, it doesn't matter if you change your mind later on and change fields, because we need to be flexible.”
Annie Easley (1932–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our children are our message to the world and if I could change the life of just one person and that be my own daughter, then I am very capable of promoting change and inspiring others.”
Cashmere Nicole wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm excited that we are evolving. I'm always open to change. Change doesn't always feel comfortable. I've gone through the whole light-skinned/dark-skinned thing back in the '90s. I've gone through the straight hair versus the kinky hair thing. I've gone through we've discovered that women who are dark-skinned are beautiful, too.”
Tichina Arnold (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have extensive experience across diverse fields including biodiversity, climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, sustainability and resilience, and can use those skills to help maintain the scientific caliber of the IPCC.”
Debra Roberts (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a co winner of the Reach for Change and Tigo’s Digital Change maker’s award in 2016 is another achievement.”
Ernestina Edem Appiah (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My profession has taught me that the most difficult and improbable thing is to change. Yet the pursuit of happiness lies not in preserving, but in the courage to change the course of events.”
Paolo Crepet (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Change does not start in big offices; it starts at the grassroots, with the people. We must be the change we want to see in our own neighborhoods.”
Catherine Kariuki Mulika (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poverty is a human-nature disaster. We have to understand the broad context of poverty and climate change, and the impact of both on humans and nature. We must look at ending poverty from a much broader scope than just social justice. Both poverty and climate change require a fight against all forms of injustice.”
Antoinette Lombard first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://stias.ac.za/2023/08/poverty-as-a-human-nature-disaster/
“I absolutely love it… I think it’s going to be one of the things I’ll be most happy that I did, when I die. Because it’s a culture change – a culture change has taken place.”
Jennifer Ward-Lealand (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[A]gility is key. As these models change, we may need to change the laws relatively quickly, which means... [e.g.,] the U.S. Senate is not the ideal system for handling these things.”
Gary Marcus (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we're entrusted with leadership, we're entrusted with responsibility to make change where change needs to be made.”
Jennifer Musisi (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What’s better now is that there are more women in the workforce. And as more women go through their careers, make their voices heard, things begin to change. Women providing inputs and having these conversations do drive change. There are also more women in leadership roles – that also helps bring additional perspective to the larger organization”
Naina Lal Kidwai (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And in many cases, where I have to file, for instance, reports, etc., the statute has to come up to show that I have the powers to do this... They said either you go for a change of the Act, but till the change comes through you will be known as Chairman. So I scrapped the cards thinking I had far larger battles to fight at that point. I accepted the term Chairman and went on with it”
Arundhati Bhattacharya (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It helps, from time to time, to change media because, sometimes, when one is comfortable with one, you can get stuck. But you change, you spread out ideas and are bound to see growth.”
Theresa Musoke (born 1944) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the presence of living things: Theresa Musoke’s story The East African ( May 07, 2025)