#movement

The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#anti-war-movement #war #beauty

My quarrel with Chomsky goes back to the Balkan wars of the 1990s, where he more or less openly represented the "Serbian Socialist Party" (actually the national-socialist and expansionist dictatorship of Slobodan Milosevic) as the victim. Many of us are proud of having helped organize to prevent the slaughter and deportation of Europe's oldest and largest and most tolerant Muslim minority, in Bosnia-Herzegovina and in Kosovo. But at that time, when they were real, Chomsky wasn't apparently interested in Muslim grievances. He only became a voice for that when the Taliban and Al Qaeda needed to be represented in their turn as the victims of a "silent genocide" in Afghanistan. Let me put it like this, if a supposed scholar takes the Christian-Orthodox side when it is the aggressor, and then switches to taking the "Muslim" side when Muslims commit mass murder, I think that there is something very nasty going on. And yes, I don't think it is exaggerated to describe that nastiness as "anti-American" when the power that stops and punishes both aggressions is the United States. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#antiwar-movement #bosnian-war #leftism #noam-chomsky #dictatorship

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

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#civil rights #civil rights movement #culture #graduate #graduate school

Love is motion Potter love is forward movement but you said yourself the memory reel backward it's all backward with you. You are stuck back there because Potter you don't let yourself move forward your eyes get stuck on things and people. ↗

— Kyle Beachy

#love #memory #movement #life

I don't do any vulgar movements. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#i #movements #vulgar

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#movements #philosophy #politics #business

Consuming what is natural, good and untainted frees you, protects you, and realigns you with what is natural, peaceful and safe. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#freedom-of-choice #natural #peace #peace-movement #freedom

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. ↗

— Justin Sane

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #demonstrated #feminist

The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto. ↗

— George Shearing

#few #first #i #movement #mozart

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#becoming #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #establishment