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title: "8 Movement History Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-marx/the-writer-may-very-well-serve-a-movement-of-history-as-its/)

[Karl Marx](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-marx/)

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> [Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josip-broz-tito/any-movement-in-history-which-attempts-to-perpetuate-itself-becomes/)

[Josip Broz Tito](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josip-broz-tito/)

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> [The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-garvey/the-history-of-a-movement-the-history-of-a-nation-the-history-of-a/)

[Marcus Garvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-garvey/)

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> [The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gertrude-himmelfarb/the-real-movement-of-history-it-turns-out-is-fueled-not-by-matter-but/)

[Gertrude Himmelfarb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gertrude-himmelfarb/)

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> [Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-dawson/every-great-movement-in-the-history-of-western-civilization-from-the/)

[Christopher Dawson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-dawson/)

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> [Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boots-riley/every-progressive-movement-in-u-s-history-has-been-portrayed/)

[Boots Riley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boots-riley/)

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> [The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jurnee-smollett-bell/the-underground-railroad-which-was-the-first-integrated-civil-rights/)

[Jurnee Smollett-Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jurnee-smollett-bell/)

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> [Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-watson/any-social-movement-throughout-history-has-always-been-carried-out-by/)

[Paul Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-watson/)

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