Movement Quotes

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

The labor movement must be destroyed.

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

As National Socialists we see our program in our flag. In the red we see the social idea of the movement.

I believe that Providence would never have allowed us to see the victory of the Movement if it had the intention after all to destroy us at the end.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

The ecological movement is concerned about this, and this is in here, where everything is public. In Iran, where everything is covert, we have no firsthand information.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?

One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.

These people, as far as I can see, do not congregate in the notorious centers of the movement, like the North Beach in San Francisco or Greenwich Village, or Venice, California.

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

There's always been a way in which capitalism has been able to almost get in on the ground floor of feminist movements and use them for their own ends.

Hitting the ball has never been my issue, so I can literally not pick up a racquet for two months and hit the ball, really, really nicely. I mean movement's always an issue.

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.

I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

I don't fully understand movements in the gold price.

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.