„Sometimes the most important changes start in small places. The tides of history can leave people in conflict and exile and poverty. It takes time for those circumstances to change. But the recognition of a common humanity, the reconciliation of people bound by blood and a belief in one another — that’s where progress begins. Understanding, and listening, and forgiveness.“

— Barack Obama

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„Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they to change themselves to improve their circumstances.“
— John C. Maxwell
„If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
„…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.“
— Jean Paul Sartre
„Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.“
— Jane Goodall