I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I… — Eugene Puryear Copy Share Image
We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s… — Daniel Yankelovich Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Social movements throughout history take place in people's minds. If we got 5,000 Americans who were talking about climate change to their… — Margaret D. Klein Copy Share Image
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
“History is a sad testament to the limitations of external change, or changing things from the outside. A dime a dozen and… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We've never had our injustices rectified from the top, from the president or Congress, or the Supreme Court, no matter what we… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“We no longer live in a mass-media world with a few centralized choke points with just a few editors in charge, operated… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe,… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions… — Julia Stiles Copy Share Image
Even if you think it is right for Bill Cosby to face charges, it`s impossible to ignore that the system which just… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
This is the beginning of a social movement in fact and not in pronouncements. We seek our basic, God - given rights… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The kind of organic wave, the way that waves move, and I'm not just talking about feminism, the way that a social… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image