Movement Quotes
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
Anne Carson
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The movement is everything, the final goal is nothing.
Eduard Bernstein
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(The animal rights movement) should be supported by all Christians. In an ecological universe, every created entity has intrinsic value because all are subjects as well as objects. As we cover more and more of the earth with our factories/ highways/ towns/parking lots, we annihilate more and more plants and animals.
Charles Birch
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Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?
David Roediger
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society . . . . What America must be told today is that she must be born again. The whole structure of American life must be changed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Non-co-operation is not a movement of drag, bluster or bluff.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.
Gabrielle Roth
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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
Henry Louis Gates
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Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.
Arnaud Desjardins
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One of the things I loved - or I love still - about this Occupy movement is it's got a very gentle core. I mean, it's really decidedly nonviolent in the face of all kinds of situations.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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Returning is the movement of the Way.
Lao Tzu
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My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.
Mata Hari
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
Bergen Evans
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A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving...
Jim Morrison The Doors
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When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.
Marianne Williamson
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Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety.
Confucius
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Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent.
Haruki Murakami
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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 of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
Angela Davis
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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
Baker Brownell
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The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
William H. Gass
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If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
Kinky Friedman
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Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.
Boots Riley