Quotes of: Social-movements Keyword

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

Chris Hardwick

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

James Fenton

Linguini: [Remy is controlling his movements by pulling his hair] That's strangely involuntareeee!

Ratatouille

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Wendell Phillips

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

Billy Graham

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Lauryn Hill

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

Margot Robbie

The only way to know the truth of a movement is to do it on your own body.

Twyla Tharp

All Bach's last movements are like the running of a sewing machine. (on Bach)

Arnold Bax

In the dark you hear movement—a squeak, a hiding. The heart opens, closes, opens.

Arkaye Kierulf

You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.

Aaron Paul

Every movement has radicals. But the important thing is that the radicals are not the leaders.

Warren Farrell

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.

bell hooks

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

Sally Ride

I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.

Zainab Salbi

We all disapprove of prostitution; but we do not all approve of purity. The only way to discuss the social evil is to get at once to the social ideal. We can all see the national madness; but what is national sanity?

Collected Wk Gk Chesterton V4

We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What ...

David Carr

It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger l...

Natasha Trethewey

I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard,...

Ashanti

Because it's so easy to medicate our need for self-worth by pandering to win followers, 'likes' and view counts, social media have become the metier of choice for many people who might otherwise channel that energy into books, music or art - or even ...

Neil Strauss

Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is not self-contradictory. True selfishness, if obedient to the other constraints of mammalian biology...

On Human Nature