Quotes of: Social-movements Keyword

In the radical feminist view, the new feminism is not just the revival of a serious political movement for social equality. It is the second wave of the most important revolution in history. Its aim: the overthrow of the oldest, most rigid class/cast...

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and me...

The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

We can witness collective movements alarmingly influenced by genuine social phobias and affecting the most industrialized and educated societies. Exclusive identities are being asserted, singular affiliations are being stressed, and it is becoming in...

Tariq Ramadan: On Super-Diversity

Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.

The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone...

Roxane Gay

In truth, feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. For whatever reason, we hold feminism to an unreasonable standard where the movement must be everything we want and must always make the best ch...

Bad Feminist: Essays

He was a son of the revolutionary movement when he and the revolutionary movement were still pristine. It was a special time for Filipino activists—a time when a hundred flowers bloomed and a thousand thoughts contended in a movement that did not k...

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

Aaron Koblin

Social media is just that - social.

Oops! Did I Really Post That

Social media is social. We're looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.

Shawn Amos

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

Jerzy Kosinski

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. ...

Character And Social Structure: The Psychology Of Social Institutions

The next step in the process is to measure the impact that these increases in reach have on your number of new transacting customers. The secret to a company’s reach strategy lies in the program’s ability not only to acquire fans, followers, subs...

Social Media ROI: Managing and measuring social media efforts in your organization

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creat...

What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

Walter Kirn

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.

Jim Walsh

Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say.

Steven Levitt

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Clay Shirky

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

Al Franken

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

Christopher Dawson