Top 1200 Occupy Movement Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was influenced by the hippie movement in San Francisco and by the feminist movement, which had arrived in Paris.

I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Heart weren't part of a movement like grunge; we were our own kind of movement.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.

A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.

On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offense to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement.

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But I'm an activist - that's just the kind of person I am.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

I don't know whether the movement crashed as a result of the overwhelming character of the institutions we set out to change. I think repression had a lot to do with the dismantling of the movement and also the winning of certain victories had something to do with the inability of the movement to take those victories as the launching point for new goals and developing new strategies.

From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed.

If a Labour movement, on a bourgeois basis, has hitherto existed in the country where the new movement is awakening it will certainly not disappear all at once.

You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!" they cried. And they quoted him some. "Your movement, does it have a flag?" asked the Chink. "You bet!" and they described their emblem. "And does your movement have leaders?" "Great leaders." "Then shove it up your butts," said the Chink. "I have taught you nothing.

The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.

Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.

There is no unmoving mover behind the movement. It is only movement. It is not correct to say that life is moving, but life is movement itself. Life and movement are not two different things. In other words, there is no thinker behind the thought. Thought itself is the thinker. If you remove the thought, there is no thinker to be found.

Young people are tremendously frustrated because they don't see politics as changing anything. They see it as perpetuating a system that frankly doesn't work and no matter who you vote for things don't really change. Social media is where I think a bold message will wake them up. We saw that a little bit in the Occupy movement. Over the next three years, I think young people are going to wake up and be empowered.

Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.

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.

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

I finally discovered the source of all movement, the unity from which all diversities of movement are born.

Glizzy Gang is a real movement. They had movements back when I was younger, in the '90s, but you don't really have a major movement in the 2000s.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.

Isolation basketball will always be part of the game. But the system has to be predicated on ball movement and, more importantly, player movement.

The technique of a mass movement aims to infect people with a malady and then offer the movement as a cure.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

The Palestinian national movement is not an Islamic religious movement.

As Bernie Sanders said himself, it's a movement, not a man. And that movement continues to move into our campaign.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.

Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But Im an activist - thats just the kind of person I am.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

My hopes for Iran's future lies with women first and foremost. Iran's feminist movement is very strong. This movement has no leader or head quarters. Its place is the home of every Iranian who believes in equal rights. This is currently the strongest women's movement in the Middle East.

I begin with movement... I believe that all human visual experiences are born from movement..

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

Change happens through movement and movement heals.

Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in the press of the civil rights movement is truncated with the briefest of histories of men like Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, or John Lewis.

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

I really wanted to be a part of that movement or better yet create that movement.

The #MeToo movement is a very important movement. It's messy. And it's complicated. And there are places where it's going to overreach.

The feminist movement has not made it to the Gulf of Mexico. Never seen that movement.

PnB is like a movement, a whole movement is going on.

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. A few stirred-up women brought about women's voting. The Populist movement, the Progressive movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women's movement - the examples go on and on of 'little people' getting together and telling the truth about their lives. They made our government act.

This is a movement. This is not Trump. This is not anything. This is a movement. Remember, it is a movement. We used to say silent majority. It`s not a silent majority, it`s really a noisy majority.

The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day.