Movement Quotes
2728 quotes by 1884 authors
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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My…
— James L. Farmer, Jr.
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So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture,…
— George W. Bush
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Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man…
— Pete Townshend
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The Hamas movement will lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine – all of Palestine, Allah willing.
— Ismail Haniyeh
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The religious environmental movement is potentially key to dealing with the greatest problem humans have ever faced, and it has never been captured with more…
— Bill McKibben
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All we have to do is replace Obama. ... We are not auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a president to tell us in…
— Grover Norquist
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Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
— Amit Ray
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The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control. Control over…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Folks who are getting their strokes in the South are not as unhappy with Howard Dean. You don't see anybody starting any movement to get…
— Gwen Ifill
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I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of…
— Shirley Chisholm
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I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.
— Donald Barthelme
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Of all the countries of the world America is the one where the movement of thought and human industry is the most continuous and swift.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the…
— George Washington
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The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that…
— John Hume
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One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy,…
— Sigmund Freud
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I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic…
— Alice Paul
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You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't…
— Amitav Ghosh
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