Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement. — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
Storytelling may be what most distinguishes social movements from interest groups. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement. — Joia Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds. — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission. — Atishi Copy Share Image
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of… — Freda Adler 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
I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life. — Richard Allen Epstein Copy Share Image
Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just… — Padmapriya Janakiraman Copy Share Image
“By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon… — Tim DeChristopher 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
“Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with… — Adolf Hitler 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
“A critical element in nearly all effective social movements is leadership. For it is through smart, persistent, and authoritative leaders that a… — David E. Wilkins 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
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
“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
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Too often, our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they "succeeded" in realizing their visions rather than on… — Robin D.G. Kelley Copy Share Image
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at… — Nigel Gibson 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 social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up… — Judith Butler 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
“The 1970s-80s social movement called U.S. third world feminism functioned as a central locus of possibility, an insurgent social movement that shattered… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Lynum had plenty of information to share. The FBI's files on Mario Savio, the brilliant philosophy student who was the spokesman for… — Seth Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion. — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses. — Keith Henson Copy Share Image
[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image