There has never been a successful social movement for any…

Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

— Richard Allen Epstein

This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human…

— Cesar Chavez

As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is…

— Ayn Rand

When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall…

— Howard Zinn

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

Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody into office,…

— Howard Zinn

In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real…

— Jill Stein

There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

— Joia Mukherjee

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make…

— Martin Luther King Jr

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

— Cleve Jones

“They didn't need the support of the majority. Sometimes all that's needed is a group of people loud enough and influential enough to change…

— Johanna Sinisalo

In order to continue in office, any government (not simply a 'democratic' government) must have the support of the majority of its subjects. This…

— Murray Rothbard

I think Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to everyone in the United States. Politics is always about getting the…

— Marco Rubio

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt