Quotes of: Rights-movement Keyword

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

Robert Reich

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

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

Ted Turner

You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - qu...

Carl Honore

There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation....

Moby

…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s been forgotten that the Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement with one...

Elbert Guillory

When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion w...

Feisal Abdul Rauf

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents readi...

Henry Louis Gates

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

Robert Delaunay

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

Jim Wallis

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

Issey Miyake

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Alfred Adler

So May 4th in the labor movement has always been an important date.

William Kunstler

I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise o...

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

There should be a public outcry about what happened to me and other women in the name of our government! But history has shown “the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of al...

Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders

When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from ...

Lawrence Wright

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a s...

Carl Honore

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get a...

Jo Nesbo

There's no comparison between NPR and the propaganda that you hear from Rush or from Sean Hannity, the news movement conservatives that are just laying out, slathering out the disinformation and the lies, as I discuss in my book, 'Lies and the Lying ...

Al Franken

I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British ta...

Vince Cable