Famous Quotes

"I know that my race must change."

Chief Joseph on Change

More quotes about Change

• "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

  Maya Angelou on Change

• "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. on Change

• "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

  Reinhold Niebuhr on Change

• "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

  Barack Obama on Change

• "You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Change

More quotes by Chief Joseph

• "We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone."

• "I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land."

• "My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people."

• "It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises."

• "I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated."