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Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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✓Similar Perspectives

You have to change men physically before you change them intellectually.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Great changes cannot take place in the minds of generations of men without a corresponding change in their external symbols. There must be a harmony between the inner and the outward condition of human beings, and the progress of the one must keep pace with the progress of the other.

— William Godwin

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

— George Matthew Adams

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

— Plato

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

— Joseph Addison

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

— Wendy Carlos

You can change the circumstances but you can never change man's inner nature.

— Ron Perlman

✗Opposing Perspectives

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

— Alice Walker

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

— Anthony Carmona

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

— Nicolas Malebranche