Terry Tempest Williams Quotes About Social Change

Quotes about: Social Change

• Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teamwork, Imagination, Community

• The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of social change. I do think we have to acknowledge that we are a very capitalistic and consumptive nation, and that talk about conservation or issues of sustainability is never going to be popular with the dominant culture because it means checks and balances on an economy that is reserved for the dollar, rather than an economy that honors and respects spiritual resources and the right of all life to participate on the planet, not just our species.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Spiritual, Believe, Mean

• When we really need to work hard to make sure that these ideas about constructive social change culturally, ecologically and politically, come to pass. And that's only going to happen if people support the leadership, because the same power structures are still in place, and it's not in their best interests to change.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Hard Work, Ideas, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• Wherever we are, we can call for and create these kinds of settings for authentic dialogue. This is the seedbed of social change. In a voiced community, we all flourish. But it's not easy. Revolutionary patience and persistence is required. It can be messy, it is unpredictable, and change, especially structural change takes time - time and leadership and the will of an engaged community. What is needed? In a word, courage.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Persistence, Community, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

• Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creating, Broken, Mosaics

  Source: therumpus.net

• Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Community, Inspire, Stories

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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