Quotes of: Social-movements Keyword

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

Susan George

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

Bob Hawke

I call it small government, grass-roots activism: The Tea Party activists are a part of it, FreedomWorks is part of it. FreedomWorks is the longest-standing, most active organization within this movement.

Dick Armey

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

The eco-movement is growing as people all over catch on to the need to protect our precious planet, which makes the future look really bright - and makes me really happy.

Josie Maran

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Frank Gehry

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

Holly Near

I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

J. M. Coetzee

In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.

Brian Ferneyhough

Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

Boy George

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

Bill Keller

The abolition and suffrage movements progressed when united and were damaged by division; we should remember that.

Gloria Steinem

I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

Jill Scott

Dost thou not understand that there are two distinct forces in us, that of the soul and that of the body, that is, a movement and a regulator?

Jules Verne

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Denis Lavant

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Doris Lessing

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

Jim DeMint

Never mistake movement for action... a rocking horse moves; a race horse charges towards a goal.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

John L. Lewis

My dearest friend in the movement is Jack Nichols. If there were no such thing as gay or straight, we would still talk and share experiences till the end of time.

George Weinberg