“I'm hearing here that this Muslim movement, well, for women, is what we have to focus on. And women have been doing, I think, the right thing. Having the conversations, talking to people about that.” PeopleThinkingWellsHas BeensTalkingFocusMovementConversationHearingRight Thing Author:Dalia Mogahed
“You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.” PeopleWritingGovernmentRunningMovementThemeCriminality Author:David Mamet
“You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTwoNationsNumbersCasesRightsMovementGayDeserveAbsolutesShamePro LifeBasic RightsTravesty Author:Jon Stewart
“We`ve got to stand with those people who are being attacked today, but at the same time, it`s not good enough to say that racism and xenophobia is bad. We`ve got to reach those people today who are so angry, who are so hateful and say, yes, you have a right to be angry, don`t take it out on the Muslims. Work with us to create an agenda and political movement that will make your life better, not just other people`s life worse.” PeopleEnoughTodayPoliticalMovementRacismAngryAgendasGood EnoughHatefulNot Good EnoughXenophobiaPolitical Movements Author:Bernie Sanders
“It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of the 19th century also. The know-nothings were a Protestant movement, and they rejected Catholics and didn`t want Catholics brought into America.” PeopleKnowsWantYearsTodayAmericaDifficultMiddleCenturyMovementJudgingStandardsYears AgoCatholicRejectedProtestants19th Century Author:Steve King
“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
“I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the strongest electoral arm of that movement is the Green Party. I try to stress to people cynical about voting that the Greens are the most effective electoral arm of the so-called Spirit of Seattle, and it's great fun to cause trouble in the streets, but that's not going to accomplish much without insurrection in the voting booth at the same time.” PeopleTryingSpiritFunCausesPartyTroubleStreetsMovementArmsRight NowStressGreenAccomplishExpectedCorporateVotingStrongestCynicalGlobalizationMushroomsSeattleInsurrectionGreen Party Author:Jello Biafra
“People used the term "hardcore" loosely. A lot of bands use it as a jumping stone to the next level. Hardcore, it's got a lot more to with then music. It's a very passionate movement.” PeopleUseUsedNextTermLevelsMovementBandStonesPassionateJumpingNext LevelHardcore Author:Roger Miret
“I enjoy being a student and learning. I don't think you should ever stop being a student. That's where the most creative ideas come from. Teaching is a blessing as well because I get to share what I've learned and my passion for creative movement with people.” PeopleThinkingShouldWellsIdeasPassionEnjoyCreativeShareTeachingMovementStudentsBlessingI've LearnedMy PassionCreative Ideas Author:Derek Hough
“I traveled for seven years, and when I came back home I was completely lost. I didn't know what to do with my life, so I decided to let people decide for me. For month I followed strangers on the street. For the pleasure of following, not because the party interested me. I photographed them without their knowledge, took note of their movements, and finally lost sight of them. At the end of January 1980, I chose a man and followed him to Venice. That's how I started. That's all.” PeopleKnowsMenYearsEndsHomeLostPleasurePartyStreetsMovementMonthsDecidedSightNotesSevenFollowingStrangerTraveledSeven YearsBack HomeVeniceJanuary Author:Sophie Calle
“I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.” PeopleKnowsAbleWinningWrittenMovementSpeakersGlobesGreat WritersWritten WordGreat Speakers Book:Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated
“The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.” PeopleFeelsHomeHappensSchoolCultureOpportunityGivenChanceWhiteEffortPracticeStudyRichMovementReturnDecidedWestWesternParisCustomsAllowingSolidarityFundamentalistOxfordOther CulturesExpatriates Author:Umberto Eco
“Who is the enemy? Who is holding back more rapid movement to the better society that is reasonable and possible with available resources?...Evil, stupidity, apathy, the 'system' are not the enemy...The real enemy is fuzzy thinking on the part of good, intelligent, vital people...In short, the enemy is strong natural servants who have the potential to lead but do not lead, or who choose to follow a non-servant.” PeopleThinkingRealEvilStrongNaturalEnemyMovementResourcesIntelligentAvailableStupidityServantReasonableApathyRapidsFuzzyHolding Back Author:Robert K. Greenleaf
“Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.” PeopleThinkingImportantSelfMovementFeaturesSelf Respect Author:Toni Morrison
“Allegiance to Jesus and loving the truth are primary truths (2Thessalonians 2 v10). The Body of Christ must tolerate all religions in the sense of greatly valuing the dignity of their people and religious liberties. They possess great dignity before God. Yet, we are not willing to let them go to hell by refusing to love them and tell them the truth about Jesus. A false application of tolerance is foundational in the movements that lead to the harlot religion.” PeopleBodyJesusChristReligiousLibertyHellMovementWillingDignityTolerancePrimariesApplicationTolerateAllegianceGo To HellReligious LibertyBody Of ChristHarlots Author:Mike Bickle
“In my dream I hadn't arrived at this street yet; this was just downloaded to me as this woman mentioned only the street name. It reminded me of hearing the words "Disneyland" and how we are instantly filled with joy and recognize it as a happy place full of fun. The words "Media Spring Street" created a movement of its own. When people just simply heard "Media Spring Street" it was like catching a wave of God and you wanted to get there as fast as you could!” PeopleDreamWantedJoyNamesFunHeardStreetsMediaMovementSpringFilledWaveHearingCatchingDisneylandHappy Place Author:Julie Smith
“At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be sure nine of them play in a band! The bad thing is there is no underground movement here anymore. Going to a show with local band's ten years ago would mean at least 300 people, now you can be lucky if 50 shows up!” PeopleIfsYearsMeanPlayShowsGuyMovementLuckyBandTenYears AgoClubsNineLocalsBad ThingsMetalsStockholm Author:Johan Hegg
“Boost Mobile RockCorps is providing the chance and motivation to get our youth interested in volunteering. I usually hear about older people volunteering, but this movement is something new that is encouraging the youth to become involved. It's really a chance for them to come together through caring more about their community, which is so important for these kids to learn early on. I think it's crucial to instill a sense of pride in the community and this is a great way for our youth to do that.” PeopleThinkingWayImportantKidsTogetherMotivationCommunityChanceMovementYouthPrideInvolvedCaringSomething NewCrucialProvidingVolunteerMobileBoostInstillOlder PeopleCaring More Author:Fat Joe
“Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.” PeopleMeanTwoImportantDifferentPiecesMediaMovementDirectBasesConfusionTraditionalOrganizedJust OneParticipationDifferent PeoplesAnarchismAnarchistStrandsOne PieceOccupy Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater or the Black Arts Movement; people who claim that I was are wrong. I was downtown. I was living in Chelsea when they were operating in Harlem.” PeopleKnowsArtBlackMovementClaimsTheaterCompareDowntownHarlemChelseaBlack Art Author:Ishmael Reed
“Instead of accepting what James Baldwin called the "lie of whiteness," many people in lots of different fields and movement activities have tried to productively make it into a problem. When did (some) people come to define themselves as white? In what conditions? How does the lie of whiteness get reproduced? What are its costs politically, morally and culturally?” PeopleDoeDifferentProblemLyingWhiteAcceptingConditionsMovementFieldsCostActivityWhiteness Author:David Roediger
“For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.” PeopleLongProblemPastValuesOrderWishWhitePoorEffortMovementSkinsRadicalWhitenessDisillusion Author:David Roediger
“You build movements and keep people in a struggle when it feels productive. Anti-capitalists have typically been the people in movements who have declared every gain to be a trick of the capitalist class to buy us off. That line isn't very inspiring, and it shows no sensitivity to how social movements actually succeed.” PeopleFeelsShowsSocialLinesClassStruggleMovementSucceedGainsTricksProductiveCapitalistSensitivitySocial MovementsVery Inspiring Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“ISIS is winning the propaganda war. They are recruiting people, including Americans, to join them, with the promise that they are joining this great apocalyptic movement that is going to defeat the West.” PeopleWarWinningMovementPromiseWestIncludingDefeatPropagandaIsisJoiningApocalyptic Author:Marco Rubio
“Kennedy saw the insurgency as a anti-colonial, essentially nationalist movement, feeding on social discontent. So you don't shoot people.” PeopleSocialSawsMovementFeedingDiscontentInsurgency Author:Roger Hilsman
“I work with Kick G.A.M.E., the grassroots artist movement. Not to tell people we have the best union plan in the world, but to show people that if some activists, if some revolutionaries, if some street organizers from the hood can come together and put together a preliminary program to give health care to independent artists.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingShowsCareTogetherArtistPlansStreetsMovementProgramIndependentUnionsHealth CareRevolutionaryKicksActivistHoodOrganizerGrassroots Author:Immortal Technique
“I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships . . . and also a few enmities.” PeopleStillsPoliticalAliveMovementSixtySeventiesEnmityGreat FriendGreat GiftsGreat FriendshipPolitical MovementsComradeship Author:Grace Paley
“We're the end of the baby boomers, and we participated in many social changes. Who would of thought, for example, when the AIDS epidemic came along that so many would die, because it was gay people dying. And what emerged was a grassroots movement that developed, and succeeded in getting things done. The pinpointing of that movement evolved into the changes that we have today.” PeopleEndsDoneTodayDiesSocialDyingExampleMovementBabyGayAidsSocial ChangeThings DoneEpidemicsGay PeopleGrassrootsGetting Things DoneBoomersBaby BoomerPeople DyingAids EpidemicGrassroots Movements Author:Todd Haynes
“Part of the fun of writing, touring, teaching, is engaging with real people about all of it: what to do now, how to build a movement, of approaches to teaching, of parenting - it's exciting to be in that dialogue.” PeopleWritingRealFunTeachingMovementApproachExcitingDialogueEngagingTouring Author:Bill Ayers
“We want to make nation-building a people's movement.” PeopleWantNationsMovementBuildingNation Building Author:Narendra Modi
“When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that is captivating the American consciousness. I think the candidacy of Sen. Obama represents the beginning of a new movement in American political history that began in the hearts and minds of the people of this nation. And I want to be on the side of the people, on the side of the spirit of history.” PeopleThinkingWantMindHeartPoliticalSpiritSpeakNationsSidesConsciousnessRightsImpossibleMovementStudentsDeterminedCivil RightsHeart And MindCivil Rights MovementCaptivatingPolitical HistoryCandidacy Author:John Lewis
“The world we live in pictures a pie with only so many pieces, and if other people have more you have less, and you have to compete with other people in order to try to get ahead. You have to sell yourself at every available opportunity. The shift, the enlightened shift, has to do with a movement from competition to collaboration, from sales to service, from ambition to inspiration, and to a belief in scarcity to a belief in abundance as an eternal spiritual quality.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingInspirationSpiritualOrderOpportunityBeliefQualityPiecesMovementAmbitionEternalSellsCompetitionAvailableAbundanceEnlightenedCollaborationPieScarcityGet Ahead Author:Marianne Williamson
“One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.” PeopleImportantNextEnergyChurchRightsMovementGoes OnMassMeetingsCivil RightsCombinationNext DayCivil Rights Movement Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“I am trying to get folks outside the hip-hop culture to understand why, despite the negatives, young people find hope and refuge in hip-hop. I'm hoping that young people immersed in the culture will work harder to capitalize on the possibilities for great social change that hip-hop represents as a national unified cultural youth movement.” PeopleTryingYoungCultureSocialMovementPossibilityYouthHard WorkHarderFolksHip HopDespiteHipsHopsRefugeSocial ChangeWork HarderUnified Author:Bakari Kitwana
“My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I think it's very important to invite and encourage people to talk about climate change who have a lay understanding. In general, there is a lot of confusion among climate activists about the role of science, that scientists should be social and political leaders of this movement.” PeopleThinkingShouldImportantPoliticalSocialUnderstandingLeaderRolesMovementScientistLaysClimateClimate ChangeConfusionActivistInvitesPolitical Leaders Author:Margaret D. Klein
“Social movements throughout history take place in people's minds. If we got 5,000 Americans who were talking about climate change to their neighbors and to their coworkers, and talking about this pledge, that would change the political and social landscape so much more than if 5,000 people got arrested for protesting a pipeline.” PeopleIfsMindPoliticalSocialTalkingMovementClimateClimate ChangeNeighborLandscapePledgeArrestedPipelineSocial MovementsCoworker Author:Margaret D. Klein
“People are are moving away from the fossil fuel-based economy, to a more renewable economy. That is what is called the 'transition town' movement. There are three hundred towns in Britain that are making this transition. Taking energy from solar power, from wind power, from water power.” PeopleMovingThreeEnergyWaterEconomyMovementWindHundredTownsFuelBritainTransitionFossilsFossil FuelMoving AwaySolar PowerWind PowerWater Power Author:Satish Kumar
“What's really interesting, though, is that some people in the Messirya are starting to see Darfuri rebels - so non-Arab, [from the] Justice and Equality Movement - have moved over into Southern Kordofan, which is supposed to be a Messirya stronghold, and started recruiting Messirya to go and fight against the Khartoum government in Darfur. Just another example of how everything in Sudan is interlinked.” PeopleGovernmentFightingJusticeInterestingExampleMovementMovedStartingSupposed To BeSouthernRebelReally InterestingEquality And JusticeSudanStrongholdsDarfur Author:Rebecca Hamilton
“That said, a lot of people buy products with "green" in the brand name, but make no attempt to understand what it would really take to live sustainably. I think one of the most pernicious examples of magical environmental thinking is the anti-GMO movement.” PeopleThinkingSaidNamesExampleMovementProductsGreenEnvironmentalBrandsPerniciousGmosBrand Names Author:Annalee Newitz
“I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After all, he [Dr. Martin Luter King] was only 39 years-old when he was assassinated, and only 36 during the Selma campaign. He always seemed older than he actually was, and I believe part of that had to do with just how much life he had to live in order to lead this movement.” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveOrderI BelieveRealizingLeaderMovementKingsCampaignsDrs Author:David Oyelowo
“Silver rights aren't as dramatic and captivating as civil rights. The movement isn't good TV and it's boring or inaccessible to many people. The forums were created to spread awareness, dialogue, and community to forge new partnerships and ideas.” PeopleIdeasCommunityRightsAwarenessMovementTvsBoringSpreadDialogueCivil RightsDramaticSilverPartnershipForumsInaccessibleCaptivating Author:John Hope Bryant
“Rappers are usually rapping about knowledge they think people need to get by in the world. If there's no movement that gives the idea that the knowledge people need is how to take over the system, what they see is that people need to know how to hustle; people need to know how to survive.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldNeedsGivingIdeasKnow HowMovementRapRapperHustle Author:Boots Riley
“I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensTakenMovementExtremesLocalsIdioticLocal Food Author:Joel Stein
“The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africato demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?” PeopleWorldEventsMovementIndiaSouthContemporaryGermanyBritainAustraliaSouth AfricaGlobalizationIndonesiaSeattlePolandQuebec Author:Amartya Sen
“I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.” PeopleFeelsChildrenMadeRealMightWantedFormFantasyRightsNew YorkMovementSummerOrdinaryHatredIntenseCivil RightsParisSomedayChicagoStakesPowerlessOrdinary PeopleCivil Rights Movement Author:Sara Paretsky
“And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.” PeopleIfsShouldSidesTermEconomicMovementBehaviorEconomicsPaidPoliceIronicRepresentativesOccupy MovementEconomic Status Author:Oren Moverman
“When they [young people] believe they are the difference! That their voice matters and to use the incredible power each one of them has. I work with an amazing young man, Jaylen Arnold, who started a foundation and a movement to educate people about tolerance and to stop bullying when he was eight years old. He never ceases to inspire me.” PeopleMenYearsBelieveMatterUseYoungVoiceDifferencesMovementInspireFoundationIncrediblesEightToleranceCeaseYoung ManBullyingEducate Author:Dash Mihok
“We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. Its also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, its an economic issue, not just an ecological one.” PeopleHumansStatesGrowthUnitedUnited StatesIssuesEconomicMovementProtectIndiaSpeciesFocusedCampaignsForestsWildernessDominantConservationSpectrumEcologicalLivelihoodOwlBiodiversityEndangered SpeciesEconomic Issues Author:Vandana Shiva
“Eminem has talent, and his talent is the thing that influences many young people who would have never gone anywhere near rap. White kids in different parts of the world use him as a barometer and the standard to live up to. In some ways, Eminem is an artist who has ushered in a new movement.” PeopleWorldWayDifferentUseKidsYoungArtistWhiteGoneInfluenceTalentMovementStandardsRapBarometer Author:Chuck D