Movement Quotes
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If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.
Ben Wikler
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Hip-Hop's cultural movement is much larger than the corporate representation. The images most of hip-hop's critics point to are those manufactured by major corporations whether on television, via Viacom, or on the radio, via Radio One and Clear Channel.
Bakari Kitwana
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I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.
Philip Glass
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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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But there is no perfect guide for discerning God's movement in the world, Contrary to what many conservatives say, the Bible is not a blueprint on this matter. It is a valuable symbol for point to God's revelation in Jesus, but it is not self-interpreting. We are thus place in an existential situation of freedom in which the burden is on us to make decisions without a guaranteed ethical guide.
James Hal Cone
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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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Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a train, and a lesser world whenever she went for a walk.
Elizabeth Hay
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Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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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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If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until comparatively modern times was overwhelmingly from West to East, not from East to West. Refugees of all kinds were constantly fleeing from Christendom to the Islamic lands. Jews of course and Muslims of course, but even some Christians and the movement of refugees went overwhelmingly that way.
Bernard Lewis
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Utopia's quite another land;
W. S. Gilbert
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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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With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk.
Sarah Waters
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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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I am a firm believer in the benefits of open markets and the free movement of capital.
Charlie McCreevy
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A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.
Ernst Mach
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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it.
Victor Hugo
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When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Movements of people create change - not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
Ai-jen Poo
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Feeling the movement of movements is wandering to the past or future. Living in the movements of movement is being in the present.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.
Scott Joplin
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For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
Haile Gerima
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In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
Elena Kagan