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“Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining in an antiviolence movement has to go beyond opting for nonviolence in one's personal life. It calls for engaging in imaginative and forceful practices of nonviolent resistance to violence, including taking a stand toward entertainment violence.”

“The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.”

Men Life Is Dies Love Is Security Movement He Man Conflict And Love Endless Life And Death Frightened Insecure Beauty And Love

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“And what movies we saw! All the actors and actresses whose photographs I collected, with their look of eternity! Their radiance, their eyes, their faces, their voices, the suavity of their movements! Their clothes! Even in prison movies, the stars shone in their prison clothes as if tailors had accompanied them in their downfall.”

Ifs Looks Eye Faces Actors Stars Voice Saws Movement Clothes Eternity Prison Photograph Actresses Movie Radiance Downfall Tailors Actors And Actresses

Book:Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

Source: Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

“The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.”

Feminism Movement Feminist Inadequate Feminist Movement

Author:Mina Loy

“Every writer's difficult journey is a movement from silence to speech. We must be intensely private and interior in order to find a voice and a vision - and we must bring our work to an outside world where the market, or public outrage, or even government censorship can destroy our voice.”

World Government Order Difficult Voice Silence Vision Journey Movement Speech Censorship Interiors Outrage Outside World Difficult Journeys

Book:Writing in an Age of Silence

Source: Writing in an Age of Silence

“I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.”

Black White Rights Movement Folks Civil Rights Frightened Civil Rights Movement Mississippi

Author:Dick Gregory

“If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.”

Ifs Today Movement

Author:Sally Ride

“there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.”

Movement Labor Trade Unions Trade Unions Labor Movement

Book:All for one

Source: All for one

“To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.”

Men Way Wells Wanted Spiritual Girl Causes Sides Movement He Man Higher Concern Labor Treated Injury Wages Fellowship Getting High Beside You Labor Movement

Book:All for one

Source: All for one

“It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.”

Mind Movement Firmness

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.”

Mind Real Strength Movement Weakness Agony Distortion Grotesque Exhibitions Real Strength

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.”

“The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.”

America Consciousness Movement Cycles Amnesia

Author:Carol Tavris

“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.”

Suffering Left Movement Buddhism Birth Ocean Wave Arise Shore

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.”

World Way War Reason Tree Blood Movement Roots War Of The Worlds Our Time Rising Remarkable World War Ii World War I Twisted Pulse Sap Upheaval Stampede

Author:Anne O'Hare McCormick

“Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.”

Men World Way Order Our Lives Movement Fit Great Men World History Obsolete Inconsequential

Author:Jacob Burckhardt

“the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.”

“[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.”

Facts Seems Age Information Movement Information Age

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.”

People Has Beens Reality Movement Defeat Desperate Proven Inability Helplessness Guerrillas Vanguard

Author:Ashraf Dehghani

“The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.”

Way Hard Political Religious Leader Doubt Movement Position Authority Casts Revolutionary Rising Islamic Regimes Academic Tides Competence Khomeini

Author:Yousef Saanei

“It is my considered opinion that the State of Israel is a racist state in the full meaning of this term: In this state people are discriminated against, in the most permanent and legal way and in the most important areas of life, only because of their origin. This racist discrimination began in Zionism and is carried out today mainly in co-operation with the institutions of the Zionist movement.”

People Way Important States Today Term Opinion Movement Areas Institutions Israel Discrimination Permanent Operations Racist Zionist Zionism

Author:Israel Shahak

“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.”

“When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.”

Use Body Action Political Names Force Party Class Movement Ought Tools Patient Operations Progressive Preaching Homeland Political Power Reactionaries Tumors Progressive Movement

Author:Nur Muhammad Taraki

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world.”

World Religious Movement Members Islam Spread Brotherhood Worldview Muslim Brotherhood

Author:Mohammed Mahdi Akef

“People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.”

People Littles Girl Sports Enjoy Attention Teach Movement Boxes Exhilaration

Author:Tenley Albright

“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.”

Seems Care Leader Movement Birth Planning After Death Family Planning

Author:Riane Eisler

“That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.”

Character Black Rights Movement Judging Skins Fats Civil Rights Tall Yellow Civil Rights Movement Judge Me Civil Right Movement

Author:Pam Grier

“They see that who they are is the silence in which sound is happening, the spaciousness in which movement occurs. This kind of recognition, whether fleeting or abiding, is called an awakening.”

Kind Sound Silence Movement Happenings Awakening Recognition Fleeting Abiding Spaciousness

Book:Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment

Source: Leap Before You Look: 72 Shortcuts for Getting Out of Your Mind and Into the Moment

“media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.”

Art Artist Turns Grows Chance Media Movement Degrees Destructive Ashes Exhausted Publicity Obscurity Short Time Saturation

Author:Joyce Johnson

“I adore my black skin and my kinky hair. The Negro hair is more educated than the white man's hair. Because with Negro hair, where you put it, it stays. It's obedient. The hair of the white, just give one quick movement, and it's out of place. It won't obey. If reincarnation exists I want to come back black.”

Ifs Men Want Giving Black White Movement Hair Skins Educated Reincarnation Adore White Man Obedient Kinky Black Skin Kinky Hair

Book:Beyond All Pity

Source: Beyond All Pity

“for me, the beauty of feminism is that it is a social and political movement that has redefined the power and obligation of the self: self-possession and self-regulation as a tool for social reform.”

Self Political Social Feminism Movement Tools Possession Obligation Reform Regulation Social Reform Self Regulation Political Movements

Book:Essays in feminism

Source: Essays in feminism

“There's always been a women's movement this century!”

Century Movement

Author:Mary Stott

“The extension of power offered by a pony, the ease and speed of movement, the tapping of unsuspected courage, the satisfaction of collaboration with another creature and of controlling it in order to improve the collaboration, the joy of fussing over it - of loving it - these, from the age of about eight to sixteen were the most completely realised delights of my life.”

Age Joy Order Movement Creatures Horse Satisfaction Delight Eight Speed Ease Over It Collaboration Extensions Realised Sixteen Tapping Ponies Fussing

Author:Diana Athill

“What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.”

Ifs Heart Persons Grows Can Do Movement Revolution Plant Seeds Outrage Fertile Fertile Ground

Author:Tim DeChristopher

“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”

Eye Running Moving Form Careers Four Movement Objects All Things Accounts Horse Twenties Mad Legs Disappear Rapids Vibrations Profile

Author:Giacomo Balla

“It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking khamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don't mind it?”

“I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Care Culture Issues Awareness Media Example Movement Needed Moved Strategy Feminist Lgbt Representation Popular Culture Culture Change

Author:Ai-jen Poo

“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.”

“Frankly, getting Mexico economically headed in the right direction with good energy policy - Canada, the United States, and Mexico have more known energy reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia. So developing those and I think you'll see a major movement of people back into Mexico when that occurs when these prices get back. You're going to see a substantial development of the energy business in Mexico and Canada, domestic as well.”

“Every party and every movement tends to need a hero.”

Needs Party Movement Hero

Author:Chris Matthews

“I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop.”

Facts Political Groups Movement Type Months Balance Stupidity Overwhelming Dislike Gang Props Political Movements Political Groups

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is you don't end up with free political systems or free economic systems, you end up with a handful of radicals controlling the country.”

People Ends Country Political Results Democracy Taken Economic Movement Radical Broads Vicious Handful Political Systems Economic Systems

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.”

“We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.”

Thinking Lying Lines Fiction Movement Straight Lines Fiction Writers Mazes Flux

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.”

People Thinking Helping Movement Starting Imperatives Revive

Author:Lance Armstrong

“I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.”

Thinking Feels Kind Mean Two Desire Movement Connections Intense Isolated Back And Forth

Author:Adrienne Rich

“The phenomenal success of the recovery movement reflects two simple truths that emerge in adolescence: all people love to talk about themselves, and most people are mad at their parents. You don't have to be in denial to doubt that truths like these will set us free.”

People Two Parent Simple Doubt Movement Mad Recovery Denial Therapy Adolescence Phenomenal Simple Truths

Author:Wendy Kaminer

“one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.”

Years Has Beens Two Past Rights Generations Movement Weakness Hundred Disappear Tendencies Womens Rights Over The Past New Generation

Author:Susan Jacoby

“Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

Sound Space Silence Meditation Journey Movement Identity Stillness Unlimited

Author:Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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