Social Movements Quotes

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

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.