#the world

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world? ↗

— Kyle Chandler

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By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we? ↗

— Rick Danko

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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night. ↗

— Michael Franti

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The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#does #only #poetry #save #save the world

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#appear #available #beliefs #bring #change

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

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When people said Africa would change me, I didn't understand what they meant. To see the poverty in the townships, for instance, is overwhelming. I found it heart-wrenching to see young children walking barefoot and hungry in the dirt. I'm the kind of person who wants to change the world right here and now, so I got frustrated. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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