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title: "25 Social Movement Quotes by 24 authors"
description: "Browse 25 Social Movement quotes by 24 authors. Discover the best Social Movement sayings and thoughts."
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> [Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sherrod-brown/young-people-have-been-at-the-forefront-of-every-great-social/)

[Sherrod Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sherrod-brown/)

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> [You don't need role models to be part of a social movement as long as you care about the issues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-wong/you-don-t-need-role-models-to-be-part-of-a-social-movement-as-long-as/)

[Joshua Wong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-wong/)

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> [I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-think-there-s-a-mystery-about-what-a-social-movement-is/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joia-mukherjee/there-will-be-no-equity-without-solidarity-there-will-be-no-justice/)

[Joia Mukherjee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joia-mukherjee/)

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> [There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hudson-taylor/there-has-never-been-a-successful-social-movement-for-any-minority/)

[Hudson Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hudson-taylor/)

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> [What sitcom's brilliant at is identifying a social movement or type and skewering it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/josh-widdicombe/what-sitcom-s-brilliant-at-is-identifying-a-social-movement-or-type/)

[Josh Widdicombe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/josh-widdicombe/)

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> [Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/without-myth-however-every-culture-loses-its-healthy-creative-natural/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-brown/where-there-is-a-sufficient-social-movement-of-self-reliant/)

[Jerry Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-brown/)

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> [“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fred-whitehead/far-from-being-marginalized-as-is-presently-the-case-nineteenth/)

[Fred Whitehead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fred-whitehead/)

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> [Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cleve-jones/any-social-movement-that-seeks-to-benefit-only-its-own-members-i/)

[Cleve Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cleve-jones/)

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> [When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/om-malik/when-i-see-kickstarter-i-don-t-see-a-company-instead-i-see-a-social/)

[Om Malik](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/om-malik/)

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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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> [A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/a-social-movement-that-only-moves-people-is-merely-a-revolt-a/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [“Every social movement must grapple with the generational and tactical divides that arise between varying groups and factions that comprise the ground…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wesley-lowery/every-social-movement-must-grapple-with-the-generational-and-tactical/)

[Wesley Lowery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wesley-lowery/)

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> [When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/when-a-social-movement-adopts-the-compromises-of-legislators-it-has/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alicia-garza/every-successful-social-movement-in-this-country-s-history-has-used/)

[Alicia Garza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alicia-garza/)

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> [This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cesar-chavez/this-is-the-beginning-of-a-social-movement-in-fact-and-not-in/)

[Cesar Chavez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cesar-chavez/)

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> [Sometimes the difference between two candidates is an important one in the immediate sense, and then I believe trying to get somebody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-zinn/sometimes-the-difference-between-two-candidates-is-an-important-one/)

[Howard Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-zinn/)

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> [“In almost every successful social movement of the last century, from Gandhi's campaign against British rule to the Solidarity movement in Poland…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/in-almost-every-successful-social-movement-of-the-last-century-from/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [“Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr-2/human-beings-with-all-their-faults-and-strengths-constitute-the/)

[Martin Luther King Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr-2/)

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> [In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jill-stein/in-other-words-speaking-truth-as-a-social-movement-may-move-you/)

[Jill Stein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jill-stein/)

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> [As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/as-a-cultural-intellectual-power-and-a-moral-ideal-collectivism-died/)

[Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/)

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> [What we have found is that because of smartphones and access to media, and because everybody knows how everyone else lives, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-yong-kim/what-we-have-found-is-that-because-of-smartphones-and-access-to-media/)

[Jim Yong Kim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-yong-kim/)

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> [I am part of a broad social movement. Ten years ago, it would have unimaginable for some random Dutch historian to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rutger-bregman/i-am-part-of-a-broad-social-movement-ten-years-ago-it-would-have/)

[Rutger Bregman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rutger-bregman/)

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> [Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-allen-epstein/feminism-is-the-single-most-powerful-social-movement-of-our-time-one/)

[Richard Allen Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-allen-epstein/)

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                        "text": "This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights as human beings...We shall do it without violence because it is our destiny. To the growers and to all who oppose us, we say the words of Benito Juarez: 'Respect for another's right is the meaning of peace.'",
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                        "text": "In other words, \"speaking truth\" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and have real enduring change, it takes both a movement on the ground and an independent political party that is itself the defiance of that two-party corporate big-money control of politics.",
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                        "text": "As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: \"I want it now is through.\"",
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