Movement Quotes · Page 25

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a…

— Carol Shields

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice…

— Martin Seligman

Clearly no working class movement ever came about that was able to do what Marx was hoping for.

— Allen W. Wood

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.

— Ted Yoho

Be the Church - that is, be an evangelical movement that tells the world of God's passionate love for humanity. That, not…

— George Weigel

Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live…

— Christopher Moore

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful…

— Carol Gilligan

I'm doing my bit for the women's movement. The women have always been naked in movies, and now I'm just desperate to…

— Ewan McGregor

There's a tremendously satisfying freedom associated with weightlessness. It's challenging in the absence of traction or leverage, and it requires thoughtful readjustment.…

— Buzz Aldrin

Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,…

— Michelle Alexander

I think every generation has that movement of hip-hop that you know you're playing it and you definitely have that moment of…

— Solange Knowles

The autonomy of the individual appears to be complemented and enhanced by the movement of the group; while the effectiveness of the…

— Hakim Bey

It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the…

— Terry Tempest Williams

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!…

— Holly Near

We must build a movement for education, not incarceration. A movement for jobs, not jails. A movement that will end all forms…

— Michelle Alexander

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

[Hillary Clinton] supports now a hike in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Prior to that, she did not support…

— Jonathan Tasini

You know, sometimes I worry, you know, is comedy and my type of comedy going to get stale? Is it going to…

— Jeff Ross

But I think it's very key that there's a plan for Haiti. And we have to begin to - as progressives and…

— Danny Glover

“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there…

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some…

— C. L. R. James

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

— Archie Moore

the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and…

— Susan Faludi

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich…

— Warren Beatty