Movement Quotes by Noam Chomsky

The labor movement can be rebuilt, as has happened before after sharp declines.

— Noam Chomsky

The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.

— Noam Chomsky

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

— Noam Chomsky

There are all the activist groups on every imaginable topic - solidarity groups, environmental and feminist groups - sectors of these movements…

— Noam Chomsky

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

— Noam Chomsky

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

— Noam Chomsky

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined…

— Noam Chomsky

In fact, I was in a lab that was a hundred percent funded by the Pentagon, and it was one of the…

— Noam Chomsky

The [Ronald] Reagan administration picked up the rhetoric of the anti-nuclear movement; they said "Yyeah, you're right." We have to eliminate nuclear…

— Noam Chomsky

Unless that happens, unless you get, you know, kind of integration of activists' concerns and movements, it will be, each one will…

— Noam Chomsky

The people who were really important are the ones whose names are forgotten. And that's true of every movement that ever existed.

— Noam Chomsky

There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not…

— Noam Chomsky

I am not too happy with terms like “the left”, to be honest. And I don’t use it much….if by “the left”…

— Noam Chomsky

The lessons are, unfortunately, that a small weak country that is facing an extremely hostile and very violent superpower will not make…

— Noam Chomsky

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge…

— Noam Chomsky

In the late 19th century there was a major union organization, Knights of Labor, and also a radical populist movement based on…

— Noam Chomsky

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where…

— Noam Chomsky

Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do…

— Noam Chomsky

Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society,…

— Noam Chomsky

There's a strong nativist tradition - saying, "we have to protect ourselves" - that comes from the founding of the country. If…

— Noam Chomsky

There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a…

— Noam Chomsky

To pay attention to the actual core of the movement - that would be pretty hard. Can you concentrate for example on…

— Noam Chomsky

If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the…

— Noam Chomsky

The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer…

— Noam Chomsky

Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent,…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't claim to know a lot about Mexico, but I did talk to quite a number of left Mexican intelectuals, and…

— Noam Chomsky

In some ways, [the student anti-sweatshop movement] is like the anti-apartheid movement, except that in this case its striking at the core…

— Noam Chomsky

The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as…

— Noam Chomsky

Trump's principal policies make clear what's going to happen. This gives an opportunity. Right now it's going to take hard work, but…

— Noam Chomsky

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and…

— Noam Chomsky

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been…

— Noam Chomsky

The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the…

— Noam Chomsky

Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by…

— Noam Chomsky

Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to…

— Noam Chomsky

Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over…

— Noam Chomsky

Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that…

— Noam Chomsky

A lot of association on the internet is highly constructive. There are people interacting, interchanging ideas, making plans, coordinating activities; take any…

— Noam Chomsky

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam.…

— Noam Chomsky

The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has…

— Noam Chomsky

Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement…

— Noam Chomsky