Movement Quotes · Page 80

Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Henry Rollins

The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.

— Demba Ba

In America, we have to really be working on two fronts right now. Immediately, we have to be rising in resistance and…

— Eve Ensler

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made…

— Julian Bond

There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating…

— A. S. Byatt

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the…

— Beryl Bainbridge

Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom…

— Peter Marshall

As what you first are moves in the context of form, you have real reflection within that form, real reflection of what…

— John de Ruiter

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to…

— Ben Stein

We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.

— Candice S. Miller

“The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart.”

— Toba Beta

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into…

— Drew Barrymore

After pop art, graffiti is probably the biggest art movement in recent history to have such an impact on culture.

— Jeffrey Deitch

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour…

— August Spies

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.”

— Steve Maraboli

If Occupy Wall Street was actually a march, and people from all around the country could collect and march toward Washington, D.C.,…

— Scarlett Johansson

Spirituality has to play an important role, particularly in resistance movements. The institutions we are fighting against - corporations and governments -…

— Tim DeChristopher

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere.

— Graeme Murphy

In my childhood everything you heard, you could imagine what it looked like. Even singers that I would hear on the radio,…

— Bob Dylan

My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today…

— John Kasich

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

— Sonia Rykiel

That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the…

— Haskell Wexler

I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement…

— Adrienne Rich

We are particularly thankful to you for your part in the movement to have the words under God added to our Pledge…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

— Charles Buxton

People don't want to think... I mean, they don't! They just want to say, 'Oh, okay, feminists are humorless man-haters,' and that's…

— Roxane Gay

One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not…

— Jello Biafra

Change happens through movement and movement heals.

— Joseph Pilates

You're 25 and you're looking at adults of your parents' age and older saying, "I don't want to live that way," and…

— Rush Limbaugh

Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks…

— Henry Calvert Simons

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

— Anonymous

“The worse thing you can do in a fight is stop moving. When someone attacks, they create force, movement, momentum, but you'll…

— Victoria Schwab

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an…

— Glenn Beck

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

— William S. Burroughs

Yes, we do need better representation, but I'm a big believer that we also need to talk about the Uluru Statement of…

— Adam Goodes

You lived intensely with others, only to have them disappear overnight, since the shadow class was condemned to movement. The men left…

— Kiran Desai

A new race-neutral language was developed for appealing to old racist sentiments, a language accompanied by a political movement that succeeded in…

— Michelle Alexander

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out…

— Adam Cohen