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Quotes About Movement

All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.
~ Eric Hoffer
needs the iron will, daring and vision of an exceptional leader to concert and mobilize existing attitudes and impulses into the collective drive of a mass movement.
~ Eric Hoffer
During the civil rights movement, large majorities of the public thought that Freedom Rides and lunch-counter sit-ins and marches across militarized bridges were counterproductive, and that reform was moving too quickly and disruptively. Today, all those tactics have been sanctified in national memory.
~ Eric Liu
Did I want to dance? Of course I did and that's not all.
~ Erica Jong
Celem nie jest koniec drogi, tylko posuwanie siÄ™ naprzód.
~ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
My duty not to remain passive in a world which seems to be moving toward self-chosen catastrophe.
~ Erich Fromm
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
~ Amelia Earhart
I have been a lot of places in my time, and done a lot of things. And there is a sense of Prodigal about my life that begs to be resolved. But one truth anyone reading these pieces ought to get is the sense of movement--the struggle, in myself, to understand where and who I am, and to move with that understanding.
~ Amiri Baraka
It isn't my aim just to make a racket My aim is that things should change
~ Amitabha Bagchi
The fiercest emotional pain has the power to swallow you whole if you are stationary long enough.
~ Amy Banks
A motor-car cuts a swathe through the bright air, sharp-beaked, irresistible, shouting to the wind to make way.
~ Amy Lowell
For Luke, Isaiah's proclamation has new meaning: The "Lord" for Luke is Jesus of Nazareth, and the "way" to be prepared is not a literal highway in the desert, but the new movement that called itself not "Christian" but followers of "the Way" (see Acts 9:2).
~ Amy-Jill Levine
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
~ Anais Nin
Jazz is the music of the body
~ Anais Nin
A Dancer Dosn't Need a Stage Only a Soul
~ Andrea Edwards
Nordic walking by default improves your posture because of the way you need to move with the walking poles. Aside
~ Andrea Fisher
For, like the wind, the sun, or the flowing river, like a soaring man-of-war or a beetle under a stone, like a spider at a web or a crab scuttling sideways across a shore, Nimrod was free.
~ Andrea Levy, The Long Song
Dance is a place I go to know myself and the world experientially and intellectually.
~ Andrea Olsen
Or is there another phase, beyond peaceful protest?
~ Andreas Malm
No road map, no manifesto, no vision from the climate movement - and it has its fair share of radicals - ever sketched anything like the meteor storm of state interventions that hit the planet in March 2020, and yet we were always told that we were being unrealistic, unpragmatic, dreamers or alarmists. Never again should such lies be given a hearing.
~ Andreas Malm
The civil rights movement won the Act of 1964 because it had a radical flank that made it appear as a lesser evil in the eyes of state power.
~ Andreas Malm
Southern Journey: My Return to the Civil Rights Movement.
~ Andrei Codrescu
The director's task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Influenced by Wesley and the revival movement, Englishman William Wilberforce led the successful movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire.
~ Andrew Himes