The most effective way to solve problems is to help people understand the system that creates them.

Social problems are not caused by bad people but by systems that create perverse incentives.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.

In a broken system, doing the right thing often feels like swimming against the current.

Social change occurs when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing.

The world's problems are not caused by a lack of resources, but by a lack of equitable distribution.

Every social problem has someone who benefits from its continuation.

True progress requires changing the rules of the game, not just helping people play the existing game better.

The measure of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members.

Complex problems require systemic solutions, not just individual charity.

Follow the money and you'll find the motivation behind most social problems.

Social justice is not about making people equal, but about creating conditions where everyone can flourish.

The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one - and that it's worth solving.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Many social problems persist because the solutions would inconvenience the comfortable.

Change happens when the cost of maintaining the status quo exceeds the cost of change.

The most dangerous social problems are those that have been normalized.

We don't have a scarcity problem; we have a distribution and priorities problem.

Social problems are often symptoms of deeper systemic failures.

The privileged often mistake their good fortune for personal virtue.

Real solutions address root causes, not just symptoms.

When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.

The system is perfectly designed to get the results it's getting.

Social change requires both changing hearts and changing structures.

Many people mistake understanding a problem for solving it.

The most intractable problems are those where the beneficiaries are organized and the victims are not.

Progress is measured by how we treat those who have the least power in society.

You can't solve a problem you refuse to see or acknowledge.