Movement Quotes

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.

Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper.

The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Know how weather, especially humidity, can affect the movement of doors and windows.

What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.