“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.” PeopleMindFirstsArtRealBodySpiritIndividualFeltVoiceTeachSuccessfulMovementPoetBirthUltimateImportanceAddUniversityFulfillmentSubtlePoetry IsLastingWorks Of ArtRepublicWorthwhileScholarLockedSensibilityPrimalUnnoticedFirst Things First Author:Guy Davenport
“The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.” ValuesSexCenturyMovementAcceptanceBirthMoralityMajorsSeparationImmoralNineteenth CenturyReproductionBirth Control Book:The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America Source: The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America
“The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.” TodayStrongMovementBirthRejectedPentecostal Author:Frank Bartleman
“Nothing is distinct and separate. The waves of the ocean arise and have a separate birth, crashing on the shore, but then back into the ocean they go. They never left it. There is no movement in Nirvana.” SufferingLeftMovementBuddhismBirthOceanWaveAriseShore Author:Frederick Lenz
“The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.” SeemsCareLeaderMovementBirthPlanningAfter DeathFamily Planning Author:Riane Eisler
“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.” IfsIdeasBeliefEnergyDifferencesJusticeResultsOpinionMovementExpressionBirthOffersEnthusiasmSpeakersIncitement Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“One of the best things that's come out of the Seattle protests is the birth of the Independent Media Center. It's not as though the independent media movement wasn't already there, but it's given it another jump-start. There's the feeling that not only should we report on our underground culture and our own situation, but now we have to start telling people what's really going on at a time when everything from CNN to USA Today is as tightly controlled as Tass or Pravda.” PeopleShouldFeelingsTodayCultureGivenSituationMediaMovementBirthIndependentBest ThingsUsaReportsProtestControlledSeattleCnnIndependent Media Author:Jello Biafra
“Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about to enter history, and if you want to be a part of it, you will need a change so fundamental that the Gospel of John would later refer to it as a "new birth". Being born again was not meant to be a private religious experience that is hard to communicate. .. but rather the prerequisite for joining a new and very public movement - the Jesus and kingdom of God movement.” IfsWantNeedsHardWholeHandsOrderJesusHeavenBornReligiousMovementBirthFundamentalsCommunicateKingdomsMeant To BeRepentKingdom Of GodJoiningBorn AgainNeed A ChangeKingdom Of HeavenPrerequisitesReligious ExperienceGospel Of JohnWere Not Meant To Be Author:Jim Wallis
“I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, putting an end to unjust wars, and so and so.” WarEndsWholePoliticalRightsMovementBirthEnvironmentalCivil RightsAmerican HistoryUnjustCivil Rights MovementCrossroadsPolitical LifeLife SpanUnjust War Author:Barbara Boxer
“We don't have a great clash of civilizations, a clash of ideologies, a clash of alternative models, where governments thought to themselves, if we go too far, if we sort of trample unreasonably on rights, we'll give birth to a political movement which will cost us our credibility, and will possibly cost us our offices, because people will vote for the other team, the other guys.” PeopleIfsGivingGovernmentPoliticalGuyRightsTeamMovementBirthCivilizationCostOfficeModelsVoteIdeologyAlternativesCredibilityClashOther GuysPolitical MovementsClash Of Civilizations Author:Edward Snowden