“By the end of the documentary [ '13th'], you really understand what prison is, what the prison industrial complex is, where this whole Black Lives Matter movement comes from, the history of resistance, the history of how politicians have used criminality over the decades for a particular political gain. It's to give people an understanding of it so they can make their own decisions about how they want to be in the world.” PeopleWorldWantGivingEndsMatterWholePoliticalUsedUnderstandingBlackDecisionMovementParticularPoliticianGainsPrisonComplexesDecadesResistanceDocumentariesBlack Lives MatterCriminalityBlack Lives Author:Ava DuVernay
“It's such a bullshit move. Transparently so. It's obviously supposed to give succor to people who feel pissed off because someone from another country got a job that they feel should've been given to them. But that's what people voted against here. They voted against the movement of labor - that kind of fluidity - because they want a Britain that no longer exists, and they can't get it.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsShouldKindCountryJobsMovingGivenMovementLaborBritainBullshitPissed OffFluidity Author:Dylan Moran
“People do what they think works for them, but the sport is about instinct, movement, balance, power... it's too animalistic to get rigid about your training.” PeopleThinkingSportsMovementBalanceTrainingInstinctAnimalistic Author:Conor McGregor
“In a sense the Pirate Party is very similar to what happened for the Bernie Sanders campaign, where people felt inspired and they felt like they were having an impact, a big grass-roots-inspired movement, in particular with young people.” PeopleBigsYoungFeltPartyHappenedMovementParticularRootsImpactInspiredCampaignsGrassPirate Author:Birgitta Jonsdottir
“The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people?” PeopleWayNiceMovementGayChineseCommunistCapitalistBeing NiceGay PeopleStunning Author:Frank Schaeffer
“Before the change of regime in 1989, you couldn't talk about anti-Semitism, and after the regime change, people started to talk about taboo subjects. I was 8 years old in those days, and later, in politics and society, these extreme wright ideologies got stronger - the skinhead movement was started, a lot of ex-Nazis emigrated and financially supported these extreme right movements in Hungary.” PeopleYearsSubjectsMovementStrongerExtremesIdeologyRegimesNaziExesTabooAnti SemitismHungaryRegime Change Author:Csanad Szegedi
“You're 25 and you're looking at adults of your parents' age and older saying, "I don't want to live that way," and this is how it happens. It evolves slowly and it's not the result of any movement. It's just young people look at the way their parents are living and if they don't like it they don't want to duplicate it.” PeopleIfsWayWantLooksHappensAgeYoungParentResultsMovementAdultsEvolveDuplicate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“These people in Mississippi State, they are not "down"; all they need is a chance. And I am determined to give my part not for what the Movement can do for me, but what I can do for the Movement to bring about a change in the State of Mississippi.” PeopleNeedsGivingI CanStatesCan DoChanceMovementDeterminedMississippiI Am DeterminedMississippi State Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.” PeopleThinkingFactsFeltChallengesPartyCitiesLeaderMovementDemocraticDemocratic PartyMississippiAtlantic City Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.” PeopleRaceRightsMovementComfortableRelationSlaveryCivil RightsEtcRace RelationsCivil Rights Movement Author:Paul Beatty
“As Bernie Sanders himself said, you know, the [Donald] Trump movement reflects the economic despair and misery that's been inflicted not only on the American people but people around the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldSaidEconomicMovementTrumpDespairMiseryAround The World Author:Jill Stein
“When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.” PeopleKindPersonsIdeasMatterWantedMovingNamesBehindsGoneMovementProductsHonorLateUniqueFemaleNotionFeministGrandmotherAncestorBellsHookExceptionalMoving AwayFeminist MovementZenithGreat Grandmother Author:Bell Hooks
“Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it is often talked about negatively. Nowadays in light of the Black Lives Matter movement I think people should pay attention to these lives also. I think the Black community will really embrace the film [Moonlight]. It is about us. It is real.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldHas BeensRealMatterLightFilmBlackCommunityPayAttentionSubjectsMovementEmbraceSouthPay AttentionMoonlightBlack Lives MatterBlack CommunityTouchyBlack Lives Author:Andre Holland
“My goal is to try to weaponize the American people, try to weaponize the conservative movement, try to weaponize the underground conservative Hollywood movement, to weaponize as many people in the center-right country to try to rectify a generation-plus long problem that has been absolute media bias, absolute media used by the Democratic Party as a tool to defeat conservatives.” PeopleTryingLongHas BeensCountryProblemUsedGoalPartyGenerationsMediaMovementToolsHollywoodAbsolutesDemocraticDefeatConservativePlusBiasDemocratic PartyMedia BiasRectify Author:Andrew Breitbart
“The first thing we should be concerned about the BLM movement should be the issues that the Black Lives Matter movement is bringing forward. There's no fundamental platform being brought by activists in Oakland, Baltimore, or New Jersey. The main issues that you see, the commonality between activists all around the country, are trying to deal with the challenges in the criminal justice system, something that is very much central to my work. So my hope is that people stay focused on the urgency to create justice here at home.” PeopleShouldTryingFirstsCountryMatterHomeBlackChallengesJusticeDealsIssuesMovementConcernedFundamentalsFocusedCriminalsActivistPlatformsJerseyBlack Lives MatterUrgencyStay FocusedJustice SystemNew JerseyCriminal JusticeBaltimoreCriminal Justice SystemCommonalityOaklandBlack Lives Author:Cory Booker
“I think that the Democratic Party has been ill served by identity politics. I think that ironically evangelicals have now bought into the same mistake. They have discovered allies in the white supremacist movement. I think this is a heavy price to pay and will in the end accelerate the departure from religion by young people.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensEndsYoungWhitePartyPayMistakeMovementIdentityDemocraticIllHeavyAlliesDemocratic PartyDepartureAccelerateSame MistakesIdentity Politics Author:Frank Schaeffer
“I go to places and I see all these people working on peace education and on a culture of nonviolence and non-killing. You look at all these different movements going on: the environment movement, the interfaith movement, the human rights movement, the youth movement, and the arts movement.” PeopleHumansLooksArtDifferentCultureEnvironmentRightsMovementYouthKillingHuman RightsNonviolenceInterfaith Author:Mairead Corrigan
“People might want to think, "We don't need it," but you know, we can't stop it. It's a movement, which means that it's moving, whether you like it or not, it's going to move.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsMeanMightMovingMovementYou Like It Author:Iman Abdulmajid
“Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .” PeopleHandsCan DoMovement Author:Pauline Oliveros
“I've got no advice. You guys know where you are and what will work. Just know that there are people all over the place working on this and that there's a great deal of solidarity around the world and we should try to build this big, sprawling movement that looks like the kind of energy system that we want - building lots of solar panels on lots of rooftops that are all interconnected.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantShouldTryingLooksKindBigsGuyEnergyDealsAdviceMovementBuildingAround The WorldWhere You AreSolidarityInterconnectedRooftopsSolar Panels Author:Bill McKibben
“I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.” PeopleWayLooksStatesTogetherSoundChurchRolesRightsMovementCivil RightsDriversNutsCivil Rights Movement Author:Duncan Green
“Not only did you have people fleeing Libya, people fleeing Syria, the destabilisation of other African countries as a result of arms flows, but the Libyan state itself err was no longer able to control the movement of people through it.” PeopleCountryStatesAbleResultsMovementArmsFlowSyriaLibyaFleeing Author:Julian Assange
“The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several years later Black Powerites, Black nationalists, progressives coming out of the Black freedom struggle, the northern students' movement, people - students, young people, professionals, workers, who were dedicated to Black activism and militancy, but outside of the context of Islam.” PeopleYearsYoungBlackStruggleGroupsMovementStudentsOrganizationUnityIslamWorkersActivismComing OutDedicatedSecularAfrosMilitancy Author:Manning Marable
“I think that Malcolm X was envisioning, even while he was in the Nation of Islam, a black nationalist progressive strategy toward uniting black people across ideological, class lines, denominational religious lines, Christians, as well as Muslims, to build a strong movement for justice and for empowerment.” PeopleThinkingWellsChristianStrongNationsBlackReligiousLinesJusticeClassMovementEmpowermentStrategyIslamProgressiveBlack PeopleIdeologicalUnitingEnvisioningNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable
“We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.” PeopleGivingLongStatesUnitedUnited StatesRightsGenerationsMovementRight NowGiving UpHistoricalJewArguingCivil RightsLong AgoUnfortunateAsiaInitialsIndigenousGeographyCivil Rights Movement Author:John Henrik Clarke
“I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.” PeopleIfsBelieveHardWantedBlackCommunityHoursLossMorningGreaterRightsMovementRight NowFindingsGainsThirdsShoesCornersCivil RightsEntrepreneurshipClockDecentRestaurantsHard TimesNeighborhoodAfternoonCivil Rights MovementLaundryHarlemBlack CommunityBarbers Author:John Henrik Clarke
“The thing I'm most afraid of is what happens when these people who voted for Donald Trump realize he's not going to do anything for them and that he's not an antidote to what ails them. His whole movement runs on anger, and if it doesn't have anger, it doesn't go anywhere.” PeopleIfsWholeHappensRunningRealizingMovementTrumpAntidote Author:Michael Lewis
“[People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together.” PeopleTogetherAcceptingMovementSticksTendenciesMuslim Religion Author:Malcolm X
“People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe.” PeopleWorldDifferentCountryCertainLeftDoubtMovementIdentityEuropeNo DoubtPlaces In The WorldPopulistNational Identity Author:Barack Obama
“We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.” PeopleGivingRealMovementDeterminedCinemaRaw Food Author:Tilda Swinton
“We haven't had a world war in a long time. We do have mass movements of people out of Syria and North Africa. But, fundamentally, if you take Japan, you're complaining that the economy isn't booming, they'd like to have slightly higher inflation.” PeopleIfsWorldLongWarEconomyHavensMovementHigherMassLong TimeComplainingWar Of The WorldsJapanWorld War ISyriaInflationNorth Africa Author:Michael Bloomberg
“I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensAgeAcceptingRightsMovementGayIndividualityMindsetTransgenderGay PeopleVictorianVictorian Times Author:Kabir Bedi
“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
“I am really passionate about transparency and trans rights issues, so I embrace these opportunities to speak. I try to stay in touch with those who are prominent in both the trans and transparency movements, but more often than not, I am speaking out on a particular issue on my own. I certainly hope that people listen to me and think about these issues. But regardless of whether I had a public venue to speak in, I would still be passionate about them.” PeopleThinkingTryingStillsOpportunitySpeakMy OwnIssuesRightsMovementParticularEmbracePassionateTransparencyTransProminentListen To MeVenuesSpeaking Out Author:Chelsea Manning
“I don't want to directly confront great powers, which we cannot defeat on their terms. They have more money, more clout, more airtime. We cannot be effective without a mass movement, and the American people today are too comfortable to adapt to a mass movement.” PeopleWantTodayTermMovementComfortableMassDefeatMore MoneyGreat PowerClout Author:Edward Snowden
“There are always very angry or very cruel people that attach to movements.” PeopleMovementAngry Author:John Trudell
“I am interested in Icons, not just religious works but also contemporary icons. I also like the way the Pop movement of the 60s took subjects from consumer products and people - soup cans, comic books, film stars - and elevated them through art, just like in traditional iconography.” PeopleWayArtBookFilmStarsReligiousSubjectsMovementProductsPopsContemporaryTraditionalComicConsumersComic BookSoupIconsFilm StarsIconography Author:Horace Panter
“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako, about the African debt crisis, a platform to discuss the experience of people who actually live it. All of these are important ways we can use film as a forum inviting people into a dialogue.” PeopleWayImportantUseFilmWaterRightsTroubleMovementRevolutionCrisisExcitedDebtDialogueCivil RightsExecutivesPlatformsDocumentariesNew OrleansCivil Rights MovementInvitingSoundtracksForumsDebt Crisis Author:Danny Glover
“What Donald Trump is, is not movement of change, it's a reaction to global change, it's a total reaction to global change. It's transformational change in the world done by transportation, technology and all that. And people, most of Donald Trump's voters want to go back.” PeopleWorldWantDoneTechnologyMovementTrumpReactionsVotersTransportation Author:Matthew Dowd