Quotes of: Political-movement Keyword

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

Marco Rubio

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body.

Elvis Presley

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

Margot Kidder

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

Noam Chomsky

What was the constant? Movement. Yes. With time there was always movement. The setting sun. The dripping water. The pendulums. The spilling sand. To realize his destiny, such movement had to cease. He had to stop the flow of time completely …

The Time Keeper

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn't have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms o...

Noam Chomsky

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keepi...

John Lewis

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

Antony Tudor

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Morarji Desai

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Doris Humphrey

I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong mov...

Jesse Metcalfe

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both mov...

The Myth of Male Power

Over the last 25 years, the major popular movements that have had significant impact on the general society and have changed it, that have had a major civilizing effect – the feminist movement, the environmental movement, and so on – these are mo...

Noam Chomsky

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public ...

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Galen Rowell

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

Archie Moore

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something lik...

Gary Bauer

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

Ted Turner

Scattered across the Roman Empire, it was only natural for the gospel writers to distance themselves from the Jewish independence movement by erasing, as much as possible, any hint of radicalism or violence, revolution or zealotry, from the story of ...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply ch...

Thomas Friedman