Movement Quotes

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Forward, without ever turning back. ... All wars of independence have been obliged to suffer terrible tests.

My first vocation was dance.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

I know that one is able to win people far more by the spoken that by the written word, and that every great movement on this globe owes its rise to the great speakers and not to the great writers.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

"Make America great again." You know, to a lot of people, well, that's jingoistic. That's nationalism. That's cheap, that's rank, that's not a movement.

The road is better than the inn.

Sure we'll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

I love to dance. I have always been the first on the dance floor, but I'm not teachable. I couldn't learn 'five, six, seven, eight' if my life depended on it.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

… an ideology on wheels

Opposition is different from terrorism. Opposition is a political movement.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th' other do. And though it in the center sit, Yet when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Suth wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I began.

I loved doing ballet. I trained for two years.

I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

I ain’t got no quarrel with the Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.

The efforts of Black Lives Matter to bring attention to the all-too-frequent instances of unjustified violence being used by policemen may not be paying off as quickly as some might hope.

Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.