Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement. — Joia Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just… — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
“By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I… — Eugene Puryear Copy Share Image
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Too often, our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they "succeeded" in realizing their visions rather than on… — Robin D.G. Kelley Copy Share Image
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“History is a sad testament to the limitations of external change, or changing things from the outside. A dime a dozen and… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“We no longer live in a mass-media world with a few centralized choke points with just a few editors in charge, operated… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
“The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Lynum had plenty of information to share. The FBI's files on Mario Savio, the brilliant philosophy student who was the spokesman for… — Seth Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission. — Atishi Copy Share Image
Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
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