Movement Quotes
2728 Movement quotes by 1884 unique authors
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Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what…
— Jennifer Granholm
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I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil…
— Dick Gregory
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my…
— Pam Grier
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but…
— Bear Grylls
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There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
— Daphne Guinness
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Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement,…
— Paula Cole
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The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no…
— Gail Collins
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Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought,…
— Gail Collins
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's…
— Gail Collins
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their…
— Gail Collins
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away…
— Joseph Conrad
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Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Life for me is about movement.
— Elvis Costello
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We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty,…
— Ted Cruz
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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember…
— John Cusack
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single…
— Angela Davis
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And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class…
— Angela Davis
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Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers…
— Angela Davis
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Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the…
— Angela Davis
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Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and…
— Angela Davis
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.
— Jim DeMint
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Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
— Claude Debussy
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It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad…
— Mos Def
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