Movement Quotes - Page 50

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

Even there, [Barack] Obama's generals, his Pentagon, they're telling him what to do. And the force for gay rights is inevitable. And you can say Obama will help us, and maybe he will, but only if we have something on the ground that will make him help us. Frankly, the gay movement on the ground has been one of the great propulsive things that has made politicians do what they do.

It's not Lyndon Johnson who makes the black freedom movement; it's the black freedom movement who makes Lyndon Johnson.

Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

A picture story just doesn't run like a film. It doesn't have 24 frames per second. It doesn't deal with this illusion of movement.

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

I don't fully understand movements in the gold price.

One of the things it channelled in me was that experience that I'd had of wearing a big red leather thing on my upper torso in Daredevil with a mask I couldn't see through and an outfit that completely inhibited movement, feeling humiliated and like a fool. I just recalled that.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

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.

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.

It's crucial we know the facts and science, but it's naïve to rely on them alone to build a movement for change.

The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life.

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.

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.