Decency Quote by Bret Stephens

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

— Cleve Jones

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it…

— Walter Lippmann

Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history…

— Timothy B. Tyson

We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves…

— Dean Spade

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions…

— Freda Adler

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

— Hudson Taylor

Unfortunately, the overwhelming moral force exerted by leaders like Gandhi comes by too rarely in the life of a nation.

— Rohini Nilekani

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.

— Paul Watson

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

— Harold Rosenberg

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

— Jim Wallis

The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.

— I. F. Stone

When it comes to social consequences, they've got all different people acting in different ways, very difficult to even have a proper criterion of…

— George Soros