There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority. — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in… — Tariq Ali 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
Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I recall coming across a line by the late Charles Tilly when he said, "The conditions for the possibility of social movements… — Cornel West 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
In other words, "speaking truth" as a social movement may move you forward in some ways, but to really lock in and… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind… — John Trudell 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
The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for… — Saul 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
“In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“One of the axioms of organizing is that you organize people where they are, and where people are, in much of their… — James DeFilippis Copy Share Image
All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more… — Logan Browning Copy Share Image
Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice. — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As… — Estelle Freedman 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
I soon realized that the correct use of propaganda is a true art which has remained practically unknown to the bourgeois parties.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
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
“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Institutional psychiatry is a continuation of the Inquisition. All that has really changed is the vocabulary and the social style. The vocabulary… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, beliefs arise from an event or character that may or may not be authentic, and rapidly evolve into social movements… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
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
Stock prices are likely to be among the prices that are relatively vulnerable to purely social movements because there is no accepted… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
