Best commitment & movement Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't think polarization is some kind of grand distraction. It's real. People have different commitments, believe in different things and principles, different visions of the good life ... but there is also a degree to which all the really big, successful reform movements in the country had extremely bizarre ideological coalitions.”

“I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.”

Country Shows Movement Willing Commitment Gods Will Nigeria Sweeping Agitation Implementation Sharia

Author:Muhammadu Buhari

“In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.”

Ends Individual Quality Groups Movement Depends Commitment

Author:Robertson Davies

“This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.”

People World Needs Doe Real Soul Matter Done Light Individual Levels Numbers Millions Movement Mass Commitment Dare What Matters Participation Connecting Small Numbers Real Work

Author:Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

“We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.”

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Author:Dean Spade

“I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.”

Firsts Movement Commitment Fellows Males Believer Superiors Overwhelming Fundamentalism

Author:Jimmy Carter

“The only kind of work which permits an able woman to realize her abilities fully, to achieve identity in society in a life plan that can encompass marriage and motherhood, is the kind that was forbidden by the feminine mystique, the lifelong commitment to an art or science, to politics or profession. If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.”

“I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.”

Political Artist Movement Involved Commitment Apartheid

Author:Danny Glover

“There are a lot of people that form movements around particular commitments, like gay rights. It is important, but it does not link easily to, say, economic rights, and it often looks like it's opposed to them. The attempt to bring these together has yet to be done in a truly effective way, and I think it can be.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”

“Relational trust is built on movements of the human heart such as empathy, commitment, compassion, patience, and the capacity to forgive.”

Humans Heart Compassion Movement Empathy Commitment Built Capacity Forgiving Human Heart

Book:The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

Source: The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

“I remember with strong feelings the families who joined our movement and paid dues long before there was any hope of winning contracts. Sometimes, fathers and mothers would take money out of their meager food budgets just because they believed that farm workers could and must build their own union. I remember thinking then that with spirit like that... we had to win. No force on earth could stop us.”

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Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

“I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country.”

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Author:John Trudell

“Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.”

Men May Mean Important Purpose Dies Causes Movement Commitment Ideals Yield Nerves Consent Inspirational Commitment

Book:Disciplines of the spirit

Source: Disciplines of the spirit

“Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.”

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Author:Chandra Talpade Mohanty

“Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.”

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Author:Asha-Rose Migiro

“As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.”

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