My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the…

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

— Bell Hooks

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes…

— Robert Heilbroner

For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is…

— Amber Hollibaugh

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here,"…

— William S. Burroughs

A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and…

— Nelson Mandela

All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war.

— William S. Burroughs

The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital…

— Ellen Willis

A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication. To the…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we…

— Edward Snowden

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

— Steven Biko

We need a new political movement of women and men toward a new society.

— Betty Friedan

for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the…

— Vivian Gornick