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Quotes About Movements

campuses not only help create social justice movements, they need them.
~ Gloria Steinem
As we explained our idea of teaching Gandhian tactics to women's movements, she listened to us patiently, sitting and rocking on her veranda, sipping tea. When we were finished, she said, 'Well, of course, my dears. We taught him everything we knew.
~ Gloria Steinem
I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.
~ Mura Masa
Music is just sound - what's more important to me is behavior. I'm watching these play-offs - basketball - it's interesting to watch behavior, underneath all the movements and everything like that. They go into the audience and show some of the parents of the players and all that.
~ Wayne Shorter
Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.
~ Judith Butler
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.
~ Emma Bonino
Colorado Springs is a very good place to train ahead of the Olympics. We get to compete with different partners, learn different movements, we also get to improve upon our speed, which is very essential.
~ Geeta Phogat
Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand athletic training and movements. I didn't even know how to squat, necessarily.
~ Seth Rollins
In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens.
~ Wendell Willkie
As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
~ F. Murray Abraham
We hope that general readers with an interest in Japan will find in these accounts of fieldwork a wide spectrum of illustrations of the grassroots realities of everyday life in contemporary Japanese communities, companies, institutions, and social movements.
~ Theodore C. Bestor
We are automata entirely controlled by the forces of the medium being tossed about like corks on the surface of the water, but mistaking the resultant of the impulses from the outside for free will. The movements and other actions we perform are always life preservative and tho seemingly quite independent from one another, we are connected by invisible links
~ Nikola Tesla
Settler colonialism is a conceptual fine-tuning on the theories and histories of colonialism. Settler movements that sought a new life and identity in already inhabited countries were not unique to Palestine.
~ Noam Chomsky
Worth noting that the way a Ouija board works is through an ideomotor response. Whatever 'messages' the board gives its users are just the messages they unconsciously gave themselves through minuscule motor movements of the fingers when they move the planchette.
~ Chuck Wendig
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
~ Arthur Rubinstein, unverified
As Grace argues, echoing author Margaret Wheatley, movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.
~ Grace Lee Boggs
Johan, who imposed the criteria for quick movements of the ball, the obligation to open up the field in order to find space. To fill the centre of the pitch in order to play having numerical superiority, and, I don't know, introduce a lot more things so that everybody knew how Barça played and, above all, so it would be known how to do it in the future.
~ Guillem Balagué
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
~ James Joyce
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
~ Alfred de Vigny
One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
~ Edgar Ramirez
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
I am absolutely certain that my unlawful detention by the Thai authorities was motivated by their fear of youth movements around the world.
~ Joshua Wong
One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.
~ Peter L. Berger
A lot of movements use women's involvement to shame men when recruitment is sagging.
~ Mia Bloom