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Make things better by making better things.
In 1972, after many decades of exile, Charlie Chaplin received a 12-minute standing ovation at the Oscars—making it the longest standing ovation in the Oscar’s history.
What had happened was after the making of The Great Dictator in 1940, Chaplin was accused of being a communist. It affected so much of his life that he eventually moved to Europe to get away from it all.
Today, Chaplin’s final speech of The Great Dictator is seen as one of the greatest monologues in movie history. And while Chaplin admits later on that he wouldn’t have made the film if he knew the atrocities that were happening during WWII and couldn’t have predicted the backlash, he still made an all-time piece of art. (Remember the U.S. wasn’t in the war yet and were “neutral.”)
The point is that you can’t change the world without some sort of price. Sometimes that price can be small with sweat. It can also cost everything too. But if you care enough and are willing to put it on the line, you have the cost of entry to doing something extraordinary.