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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

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
Inspirational, Life, Friendship
Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead
Life, Commitment, Confusion
Attributed to Margaret Mead in "Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Volume 3" edited by Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzeheiser, and others (p. 13), 2000.

WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.

Margaret Mead
Life, War, Peacemaking

Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

Margaret Mead
Inspirational, Life, Moving

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead
Life, Relationship, Family

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Margaret Mead
Life, Jumping, Firsts
MARGARET MEAD (1959). “PEOPLE AND PLACES”