Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace. — Saul Williams 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
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because… — DJ Spooky 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
“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
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
You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
“In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“One of the axioms of organizing is that you organize people where they are, and where people are, in much of their… — James DeFilippis Copy Share Image
How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a… — David E. Wilkins Copy Share Image
I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, "The conditions for the possibility of social movements… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe,… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
If you can reach just 10 percent of the population, you can begin to reach a tipping point; that's where true social… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
Even if you think it is right for Bill Cosby to face charges, it's impossible to ignore that the system which just… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
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