Quotes of: Labor-movement Keyword

Montesquieu wrote: "I have never known any distress that an hour of reading did not relieve." If one substituted the word music for reading, the exact same dictum applied to me.

The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Louise Brooks

Choice is the basis of every part of your existence, but so is fear. The difference is, choice creates movement, where fear limits movement.

Réné Gaudette

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

Jim Costa

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

Neale Donald Walsch

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

James T. Walsh

Within white Australia, there was a growing movement for what was known as reconciliation - a movement that peaked with millions marching in 2000 to demand the government say sorry for past injustices.

Richard Flanagan

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Henry Rollins

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

Ahmet Ertegun

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

Bill Condon

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Constance Baker Motley

Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for dissent.

Camille Paglia

each year India produces thousands upon thousands of eighteen-year olds who have little to no instructed idea of the last sixty years of Indian history. They have no idea if or how those five-year plans worked. They have no idea if or how the Non-Ali...

The Sceptical Patriot: Exploring the Truths Behind the Zero and Other Indian Glories

Not every movement is progress; Some movements are just a way of burning fats!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates

If you want to love and understand yourself better, seek out unfamiliar people in unfamiliar places.

In Movement There Is Peace

Remain open to your dreams but don't be too quick to decide by what means they’ll come true.

In Movement There Is Peace

The government wants to be aware of all your movements—probably including your bowel movements. Ain’t that some shit?

This Book Title is Invisible

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.

Tom Cardamone