Movement Criticism Quotes

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

There are a number of people who are anxious to leave #metoo behind and move on, but I don't think people realize how short of a time we have been discussing this issue compared to how long this has been an issue.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.

Every progressive movement in U.S. history has been portrayed negatively by the media at the time it happened.

I am sick and tired of the myopia in the gay and lesbian movement. It'll doom the movement.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.