Movement Quotes · Page 52

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Norman Mailer

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

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

— Emma Goldman

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

— Ryan Lewis

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

— Al Franken

I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more…

— Edward Snowden

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that…

— Cecily Brown

I didn't choose Goldberg because I wanted to be the flagship for the Jewish movement, not by any stretch of the imagination.…

— Bill Goldberg

LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME…

— Shaun King

You have to go back to the Children's Crusade in 1212 AD to find as unfortunate and fatuous an attempt at manipulated…

— Helen Lawrenson

People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines…

— Brian Solis

As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement…

— Frederick The Great

He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force;…

— Epictetus

Changing the structure and rules of the global economy will require a mass movement based on messages of compassion, justice, and equality,…

— Medea Benjamin

I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again. ANAÏS NIN, Fire: From "A Journal…

— Anais Nin

He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a…

— Patrick O'Brian

But what I attach great importance to is observation of the movement of colors. It is only in this way that I…

— Robert Delaunay

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was…

— Bill Drayton

It will have to be a universal movement, and that will never be... because the big-league game, as it is now, is…

— Jud Wilson

Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and…

— Virginia Woolf

Just because of the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, after Oscar-winning actresses including Angelina Jolie came out and spoke against Harvey Weinstein, we…

— Payal Rohatgi

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

— Ed Martin

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

— Thomas Chalmers

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

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

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

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

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

— Cholly Atkins

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

— Cara Black

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

— Morarji Desai

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

— Allen W. Wood

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

You have to simply become aware of the movement of the mind, which begins this endless trouble.

— H. W. L. Poonja

You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.

— Joshua Wong

The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.

— Joseph Campbell

I think that a lot of times people don't understand the bravery that's involved with the Me Too movement.

— Trace Lysette