#movement

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#doing #environment #gay #gay movement #just

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. ↗

— Holly Near

#been #city #grown #had #involved

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

It's just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we're just trying to spread the word. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#bit #cooking #estimate #everybody #just

But I would assert that despite the wide variety of yoga options and individual preferences, there is one universal element: the union of consciousness and movement, breath and awareness. ↗

— Carre Otis

#awareness #breath #consciousness #despite #element

Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently. ↗

— Rand Paul

#day #differently #done #encountering #horribly

He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the "guru" - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#editor #guru #hebrew #house #i

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#american #american people #incorporated #just #labor

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world, voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable absence of the United States of America. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#america #court #criminal #get #hundreds

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. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#convinced #great #growing #increasingly #influential