You don't need role models to be part of a social movement…

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

— Richard Allen Epstein

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

— Jerry Brown

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

— Anonymous

I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go viral when…

— Rutger Bregman

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

What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.

— Josh Widdicombe

“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.”

— Fred Whitehead

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

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston…

— Alicia Garza

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.

— Sherrod Brown

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

— Cleve Jones

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