Movement Quotes
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An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
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We started a movement... to build character, citizenship and confidence in young people.
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Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
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In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.
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I wanted to sound new and exciting - the punk movement was over with for me.
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Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.
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I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.
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The movement is stronger, what is happening is like everyone is sharing the music with their peers that are not Africans, more clubs are playing the songs, so people are consuming the music in larger numbers.
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With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master.
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The explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.
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Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance of itself; it merely makes movement evident. Therefore, the simplest, most customary, most unobtrusive forms suffice.
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A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little
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I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I started the movement.
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Change happens through movement and movement heals.
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If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.
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Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
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It is paramount that we take control of the story behind our movement, which is that we seek equality for all Americans, no matter their race or gender.
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I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.
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The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
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Bahaism gives you a pluralistic view, and a lot of aspects of Hinduism give you a moral framework with no accountability other than the karmic system. There's no linear movement or point of accountability toward God.
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I won't live to see the death-with-dignity movement reach critical mass, but I call on you to carry it forward.
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I attempted to do yoga in German, and it was not particularly successful. So at that time, I started thinking about the idea of just movement and how I could move to de-stress.
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Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.
