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Quotes About Movement

Inaction may be safe, but it builds nothing.
~ Dave Freudenthal
I am still committed to building a movement to end mass incarceration, but I will not do it with blinders on. If all we do is end mass incarceration, this movement will not have gone nearly far enough.
~ Michelle Alexander
Some of our system of mass incarceration really has to be traced back to the law-and-order movement that began in the 1950s, in the 1960s.
~ Michelle Alexander
Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.
~ Steven Van Zandt
I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.
~ Michelle Alexander
Gender equality has long been at the forefront of my mind, and I think the Me Too movement has elevated many men's consciousness, my own included, about how to be better allies.
~ Cory Booker
A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.
~ Darell Hammond
The increase in coal production and the efficiency in coal movement are all administrative things that can add a lot to the economic growth.
~ Chanda Kochhar
Singing is incredibly physical.
~ Hugh Jackman
We are a facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilizations—the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both.
~ Bernard Lewis
When a great adventure is launched with a powerful thrust, fatigue in the muscles and doubts in the mind are swept away by a fullness that moves life along like a breath from the depths of the soul.
~ Bernard Moitessier
That afternoon they ended up dancing to Amr Diab in Yazz's room Yazz tells Waris it's important to counterbalance the state of being cerebral with the state of being corporeal Waris asks her if she means they need to do physical activity because they spend too much time thinking? Yes, that's it, Yazz says, making elaborate movements with her arms as she dances Why didn't you just say that then?
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Anima is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by
~ Bernardine Evaristo
her body will free-up itself from the up-tightness of city life and she's going to walk with more lyricalness
~ Bernardine Evaristo
me voy con el viento malvado que me lleva de acá para allá, igual que a la hoja muerta»
~ Bernardo Atxaga
Now to escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere.
~ Bernhard Schlink
Sitting and sedition don't mix.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Forks ceased their perpendicular traveling.
~ Bess Aldrich
A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables
~ beth hoffman
That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.
~ beth hoffman
Look," she said, smiling out at the trees, the sky, and the birds flying by. "That's life out there. See how it's movin'? Even the leaves on the trees is movin'. Life don't wait for nobody, and even as special as you are, it ain't gonna wait for you, neither. So it's time to make up your mind that you're gonna join it.
~ beth hoffman
Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
~ Beth Kephart
Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.
~ Beth Kephart
it was difficult to stay upright. Once rolling, the oxen were as
~ Beverley Harper