“Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays its often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize. Stillness is not just an indulgence for those with enough resources its a necessity for anyone who wishes to gather less visible resources.” FeelsYearsStillsEnoughWishChanceSilenceInformationMovementResourcesYears AgoUltimateAccessLuxuryVisiblePrizeStillnessIndulgenceAccess To Information Book:The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere Source: The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
“There's no such thing as post-feminism. It's like saying post-democracy, excuse me, what does that mean? We're nowhere near equality, so the very idea of post-feminism is ridiculous. The same people who 30-40 years ago said the women's movement is not necessary, 'it's going against nature, my wife is not interested' [are] the same people now saying 'well it used to be necessary but not anymore.' The very invention of the word post-feminism is the current form of resistance.” PeopleYearsWellsMeanDoeSaidIdeasFormUsedDemocracyWifeFeminismMovementYears AgoCurrentsExcuseMy WifeRidiculousInventionResistanceUsed To BePostsNot InterestedExcuse Me Author:Gloria Steinem
“I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.” ThinkingYearsKindDifferentBehindsDoorsStageMovementYears AgoClimateMarchNow And ThenUrgencyClosed DoorsLobbyingBehind Closed Doors Author:Avi Lewis
“Thanks to pathetic reporting by The New York Times and other media sycophants more than 50 years ago, Fidel Castro, following the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, was also seen by many as a liberator of Cuba. 'I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.' Castro said at the time. Only after he consolidated power, did he tell the truth: 'I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.'” YearsSaidLastsMediaNew YorkMovementYears AgoFollowingThanksRevolutionaryTelling The TruthCommunistDictatorshipPatheticCubaNew York TimesLast DayMarxistCastroLiberatorsSycophants Author:Cal Thomas
“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
“Two thousand years ago, God started a revolt against the religion He started. So don't ever put it past God to cause a groundswell movement against churches and Christian institutions that bear His name.” YearsTwoChristianPastNamesCausesChurchMovementBearsThousandYears AgoInstitutionsThousand YearsRevolt Book:Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within Source: Unleashed: Release the Untamed Faith Within
“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
“There is a very strong socialist movement in Jamaica. I was in Jamaica years ago. All the talk, all day they talk politics. The literacy rate is very low. Everyone is so interested in politics, more than those who can read in the United States.” YearsStatesStrongUnitedUnited StatesMovementLowsYears AgoRateVery StrongSocialistLiteracyJamaica Author:Huey Newton
“Many years ago I was part of a public health movement that raised concerns about the mercury in vaccines and about the heavy dose that infants get - used to. They don't anymore.” YearsUsedMovementConcernYears AgoRaisedHeavyInfantVaccinesDosePublic HealthMercury Author:Jill Stein
“I do a certain amount of work in religious communities on these issues. It's not the central focus of my work but it is certainly an area where I have worked a lot. It has gotten much better over the years, especially over the last couple years. There wasn't a religious environmental movement 15 years ago, but there is now - in the Catholic community, the Jewish community, the mainline Protestant community, and in the Evangelical community.” YearsLastsCertainCommunityReligiousIssuesFocusMovementAmountCoupleAreasYears AgoCatholicEnvironmentalProtestantsEvangelicalJewish CommunityReligious Community Author:Bill McKibben
“10 years ago the black man knew what his condition was. And today, because of the world revolution that's taking place all over this earth, the black man would be fighting for what he knows is his by right, but the movement on the part of [Martin Luther] King and the others had done nothing but slow down the militancy that is inherent in the nature of the black man.” KnowsMenWorldYearsDoneWould BeTodayEarthFightingBlackConditionsMovementRevolutionKingsYears AgoInherentSlow DownLutherMilitancy Author:Malcolm X
“The community itself didn't support the union. Now that's kind of interesting about [Barack] Obama, because Obama was supposedly a community organizer in Chicago at that time. Now I'm sure he read the Chicago Tribune, so he knew about it, but when he went to show his solidarity with the workforce, the first place he went was Caterpillar. I don't think he's forgotten, and the labor movement didn't react. Even radical labor historians didn't remember. It was only 15 years ago, after all, but that's a real triumph of propaganda in many ways.” ThinkingWayYearsFirstsKindRealShowsRememberCommunityInterestingSupportMovementYears AgoLaborUnionsForgottenRadicalBarackTriumphPropagandaChicagoHistorianSolidarityWorkforceCaterpillarsOrganizerLabor Movement Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost smell the drama of what happened a few short years ago [the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s]. So maybe, just maybe, we will never ever repeat this unbelievable time in our history. We have to tell it all, and make it plain, and make it clear, so people will never ever forget the distance we have come, and the progress we have yet to make.” PeopleThinkingFeelsYearsYoungForgetClearRightsProgressGenerationsHappenedMovementDramaYears AgoDistanceSmellCivil RightsRepeatsUnbelievable1960sCivil Rights Movement Author:John Lewis
“I think that most people don't think in terms of an American revolution, they think in terms of a Russian revolution, or even a Ukrainian revolution. But the idea of an American revolution does not occur to most people. And when I came down to the movement milieu seventy-five years ago, the black movement was just starting, and the war in Europe had brought into being the "Double V for Victory" [campaign]: the idea was that we ought to win democracy abroad with democracy at home. And that was the beginning of an American revolution, and most people don't recognize that.” PeopleThinkingYearsDoeIdeasWarHomeWinningBlackTermDemocracyFiveMovementRevolutionOughtVictoryEuropeYears AgoStartingCampaignsFive YearsSeventiesAmerican RevolutionUkrainianMilieuRussian Revolution Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance.” YearsSocialChancePartyMediaMovementInternetCitizensYears AgoBiggerIncludingSocial MediaTeaCombinationCandidatesRomneyTea Party Author:Herman Cain
“You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?” WantYearsLevelsRightsMovementTenYears AgoAngryCivil RightsJailRapperCivil Rights MovementPanthers Author:Tupac Shakur
“I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.” YearsWantedGirlFatherMovementYears AgoSorryFishingHuntingCampingOther Girl Author:Lou Henry Hoover