Movement Quotes - Page 9

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  I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

  Alice Paul

  Women, Mosaics, Stones

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• And I agreed the feeling of action as he was flying or jumping or leaping - a flowing cape would give it movement. It really helped, and it was very easy to draw.

  Joe Shuster

  Artist, Jumping, Giving

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• I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

  Ani DiFranco

  Women, Moving, Long

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• Olympians are the product of the Movement, and to get them to the stadiums, pools and playing fields, it takes the actions of legions of people who might not be Olympians.

  Bill Toomey

  Motivational, Athlete, People

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• I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

  Ellen Page

  Beautiful, Believe, Eye

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• We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to and identifiable with a progress towards thought that the movement of our souls expresses and measures the very stages of progress of evolution itself. Man discovers that he is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Soul

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• One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Kings, Rights

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• The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Horse, Inspiration, Action

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.102, Cambridge University Press

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• In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

  Holly Near

  Women, Believe, Gay

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• In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Moving, Desire

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• Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement.

  Nick Rhodes

  Rocks, Glam Rock, Style

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• Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

  Jim Costa

  Moving, Rights, People

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• I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

  Dorothy Allison

  Thinking, Died, Ifs

  San Francisco Focus, www.imdb.com. December 23, 1996.

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• It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the ruffle at the edge of a skirt; and I am pockmarked with whole-body pinpricks of potentiality. A stretch of my body would surely stretch as far as the sky. The whole universe poised, and I am the agent of any movement.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Lakes, Blue, Sky

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• We have to realize we are building a movement.

  Dorothy Height

  Realizing, Building

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• The program of our movement stems from the fundamental moral laws and order.

  Lech Walesa

  Order, Law, Fundamentals

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• We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.

  William Herschel

  Science, America, Unseen

  The Living Age ..., Volume 169, p. 460, 1886.

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• Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

  Nikola Tesla

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, With Special References to the Harnessing of”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Giving, Body

  Henri Bergson (2002). “Henri Bergson: Key Writings”, p.87, A&C Black

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• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  Tammy Bruce

  Men, Feminist, Problem

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.81, Crown Forum

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• What has the women’s movement learned from Geraldine Ferraro’s candidacy for vice president? Never get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Talking, President, Vices

  "Gloria Steinem, a Woman Like No Other" by Sarah Hepola, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Long Ago, Years

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.133, Penguin

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• The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

  Sarah Palin

  Smart, Party, Tea

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• When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  School, Rights, Culture

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• Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

  Pat Robertson

  Husband, Children, Women

  "Robertson Letter Attacks Feminists". www.nytimes.com. 1992.

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