Education Brings Knowledge – Knowledge Brings Understanding – Greater Understanding Brings Social Change

My go to line.  It says it by itself.    If we give education, we can create more understanding and as that understanding increases, we bring social change to our issue.  This is important as we advocate but we also have to realize the arc is long.  We don’t educate today and create change tomorrow.  It takes time to build that knowledge. This should be an ongoing process to bring people along on the journey we are educating about.

Don’t Try To Be Important, Try To Do Important

This one has been re-used and it is a clear message in a catchy line.  Some try and go out and instead of working for results for the community impacted, they get worried about their importance in the community.  They want to be the most well known or the first to do something.  They are the ones that show up when the cameras are rolling and not doing the hard work in the background when the lights are dim.  The irony is that if you really do important, then you will truly be important.

We don’t need the same doing more, we need more doing the same

This is the message of a community that sometimes doesn’t have enough depth in its people doing the work.  Anyone who is involved will tell you that if you do good work, everyone will come to you asking them to join their organization or help them on a project.  We see those that accept all these offers that come their way don’t last long as they burn out.  As a community we need to distribute these offers instead of wearing out those that will work hard.  This will increase the depths of our strengths and if done right, will increase our diversity.