Movement Quotes · Page 54

The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.

— Owen Jones

The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory.

— Alveda King

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

— Cory Booker

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets…

— Patricia Ireland

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

— Henry Rollins

The movement of the soul along the path of duty, under the influence of holy love to God, constitutes what we call…

— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

We do not need to kill or destroy to win. We are a movement that builds and not destroys.

— Cesar Chavez

It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

— Annie Leonard

When I started making music, I was so heavy into the hyphy movement. That's something you only know so much about if…

— G-Eazy

I like that people can just look at you and know that you are taken, that you are mine.” He closed his…

— Patricia Briggs

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that…

— Jules Verne

Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was…

— Farnaz Fassihi

As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it's an E.U. rule... What we then have to say is,…

— Keir Starmer

A dancer must listen to his body and pay homage to it. Behind the movement lies this terrible, driving passion, this necessity.…

— Martha Graham

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite…

— Bill Cosby

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement…

— Edward Snowden

“Our Victrola stood in the diningroom. I was allowed to climb onto the seat of a diningroom chair to wind it, start…

— Eudora Welty

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and…

— Kshama Sawant

The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below,…

— Anton Chekhov

Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the…

— Mao Zedong

The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the…

— Michael Pollan

This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society…

— Winston Churchill

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

— Nat Hentoff

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

— Norman Mailer

O God, impress upon me the value of time, and give regulation to all my thoughts and to all my movements.

— Thomas Chalmers

Pain creates movement, and movement controls balance. If the opponent does not feel any pain you may be forced to break bones.

— Ed Martin

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.

— Ryan Lewis

True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

— Emma Goldman

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

— Al Franken

Beto O'Rourke speaks in annoyingly pert platitudes like some mediocre yoga instructor who promises to 'build a movement.'

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.

— Hedi Slimane

I think what I'd really like to see would be a mass consciousness-raising movement so that we would all become vegetarian.

— Richard Dawkins

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

— Morarji Desai

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

— Cara Black

So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give…

— Cholly Atkins

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

— Muhammad Iqbal

I think all the time about the ways in which I'm the beneficiary of the women's movement's success.

— Ariel Levy