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  • The example of Russia reminds us that keeping up that enormous dead weight of the security apparatus required to enforce the ideological conformity to preempt anything that looks like an alternative or a social movement is destroying capitalism.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.

    Source: www.slate.com
  • If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at the grassroots level, but they are always under threat. The problem in North Africa and the Middle East is the politics of oil. It means that the spaces for truly grassroots politics, involving those masses of people excluded from high politics, are very quickly closed down. They are not really allowed any kind of autonomy to develop, and that seems to be the real problem, which gets us back to the neo-colonial relationship.

    Real   Latin   Mean  
  • Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  • When a social movement adopts the compromises of legislators, it has forgotten its role, which is to push and challenge the politicians, not fall in meekly behind them. We who protest...are not politicians. We are citizens. Whatever politicians may do, let them first feel the full force of citizens who speak for what is right, not for what is winnable, in a shamefully timorous Congress.

    Fall   Challenges   Roles  
    "Are We Politicians or Citizens?" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. May 1, 2007.
  • Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

    Attributed to Margaret Mead in Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. and Jaime A. Castellano, Ed.D. "Talent Development for English Language Learners: Identifying and Developing Potential", November 15, 2013.
  • [I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile.

    Movement   Social   Chile  
    Source: www.politico.com
  • Social movements throughout history take place in people's minds. If we got 5,000 Americans who were talking about climate change to their neighbors and to their coworkers, and talking about this pledge, that would change the political and social landscape so much more than if 5,000 people got arrested for protesting a pipeline.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country.

  • Even if it's a "talking head documentary" about a social movement or something along those lines, I've always thought of editing the timing and the sense of the piece for the theatrical experience.

    "Performance as Documentary: An Interview with Robert Greene (Web Exclusive)". Interview with Erik Luers, www.cineaste.com.
  • When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.

  • Religious communities have historically been designed to counteract the forces of alienation. That's why so many successful social movements have relied upon the strength of spiritual communities and a large base of their organizing has been through them.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe, those are social movements but eventually they will evolve into political movements. This will happen because the traditional bourgeois parties have lost credibility after being the main political influence in most countries of Latin-America and Europe in the last 50 or 60 years.

    Country   Latin   Party  
    "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
  • ...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race.

    Love   God   Faith  
  • I have no regrets about my political activity, only that I sometimes got carried away with it and didn't find the right balance between obligations to my family and my need to be involved in social movements.

    "Zinn Speaks". Interview with Wajahat Ali, www.counterpunch.org. April 19, 2008.
  • I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

  • Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

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

    Source: www.bilerico.com
  • As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

    "A Great American Tradition: Community Organizing" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2008.
  • Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that resistance. I took part in the labor movement, in social movements, in the church community. I felt that it was the honorable thing to do and still do.

    Source: www.yesmagazine.org
  • Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.

    Dumb   Movement   Social  
    Source: www.mtv.com
  • Feminism is the single most powerful social movement of our time, one that addresses every aspect of human and social life.

    Richard Allen Epstein (1992). “Forbidden Grounds: The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws”
  • What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.

    Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.
  • I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago.

    "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.
  • Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

    Progress   Use   Movement  
    Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”
  • The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire.

    Feet   Issues   Fire  
    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed.

    Book   Writing   Ideas  
    Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2016.
  • Individual struggles merge into larger social movements.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.

  • Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
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