Movement Quotes - Page 31

• Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Pregnancy, Moving, Flesh

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• For god is nothing other than the eternally creative source of our relational power, our common strength, a god whose movement is to empower, bringing us into our own together, a god whose name in history is love.

  Carter Heyward

  God, Names, Empowering

  Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”

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• The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Ocean, Water, Humanity

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.339, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.

  Susan Griffin

  Eye, Reflection, Self

  Susan Griffin (2001). “The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues”, Broadway

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• The trade agreement has become a rather distinct feature of the American labor movement. ... It is based on the idea that labor shall accept the capitalist system of production and make terms of peace with it.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Agreement, Ideas, Accepting

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• The origin of the labor movement lies in self-defense.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Lying, Self, Defense

  Mary Ritter Beard (1920). “A Short History of the American Labor Movement”

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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.

  Sissela Bok

  Joining In, Practice, Slavery

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• In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

  Robertson Davies

  Commitment, Quality, Groups

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• 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.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Insecure, Love Is, Men

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• 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.

  Paula Fox

  Movie, Stars, Eye

  Paula Fox (2013). “Borrowed Finery: A Memoir”, p.95, Macmillan

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• The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

  Mina Loy

  Feminist, Feminism, Inadequate

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• 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.

  Sara Paretsky

  Journey, Voice, Government

  Sara Paretsky (2007). “Writing in an Age of Silence”, Verso Books

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

  Sally Ride

  Today, Ifs

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

  Rose Schneiderman

  Unions, Trade, Labor

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• 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.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Girl, Spiritual, Men

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• It is only dislocated minds whose movements are spasmodic.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Mind, Firmness

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

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Strength, Real, Agony

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.40

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• 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.

  Carol Tavris

  Crazy, Anger, Hero

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

  Carol Tavris

  America, Consciousness, Amnesia

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• 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.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Buddhism, Suffering

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• 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.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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• 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.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Men, Order, World

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• 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.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Age, Information, Facts

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• 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.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Reality, People, Inability

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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