Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
Source: From Journey in Word, ed. Cyndi Craven; an internet collection of quotations
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.