Movement Quotes · Page 27

The LGBT movement has been coopted by the very institutions it once sought to transform,

— Urvashi Vaid

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

— Bell Hooks

I always been inspired and aspire to inspire through the music. I feel like I've always made the soundtrack to a movement.

— Raheem DeVaughn

Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.

— Charlie Sykes

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

— Laurie David

Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.

— Jill Stein

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about…

— Andy Stern

I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture…

— William Baziotes

We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is…

— Dale Jamieson

You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of…

— Wilferd Peterson

The body is a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels

— Theodor Herzl

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly,…

— B. J. Armstrong

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren't pessimistic, you don’t have the correct…

— Paul Hawken

Nine times out of 10, you see electric bikes being used for deliveries, but you're getting in a taxi, using a commuter…

— Ray J

“No movement can survive unless it is constantly growing and changing with the times. If it isn't growing, if it's stagnant, and…

— Assata Shakur

So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related…

— Dale Peck

We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is…

— George Balanchine

It should also be born in mind that the research on 'movement' and the dynamic outlook on the world, which were the…

— Gino Severini

In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment - not just in poetry - into…

— Adrienne Rich

For some people, the beginning is a time of complete chaos. You see bits and pieces of what is before you. You…

— Vinita Hampton Wright

I would not want to be in the same movement with an anarcho-syndicalist, however much I may respect and like that person.…

— Murray Bookchin

Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even…

— Edgar Degas

International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.

— Narendra Modi

The Lean Startup has evolved into a movement that is having a significant impact on how companies are built, funded and scaled.

— Eric Ries

The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

— Alexis Korner

I would adopt a standpoint, irrespective of whether someone was for or against it, if I felt deeply that it was right…

— Alfred Rosenberg

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

— Jim DeMint

I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great…

— Ani DiFranco

Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

— Chandra Talpade Mohanty

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

— Theodore Bikel

Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I stick to safe, controlled movement. If it's not safe, I just won't do it.

— Prince Fielder

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

— Jill Scott

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

— Cleve Jones

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

— Glenn Reynolds