"there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
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"Obviously the transgender movement has not progressed in the way that the gay and lesbian movement has. But Im an activist - thats just the kind of person I am."
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"Many of the points made by the antiwar movement have been consciously assimilated by the Pentagon and its lawyers and advisers. Precision weaponry is good in itself, but its ability to discriminate is improving and will continue to improve. Cluster bombs are perhaps not good in themselves, but when they are dropped on identifiable concentrations of Taliban troops, they do have a heartening effect."
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"There is a division within the neo-conservative movement, which is, by the way, one of the tests of its authenticity as a tendency. I would say I was a supporter of Paul Wolfowitz."
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"Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma is, therefore, merely to carry the movement one stage further. Moral fervor is the essence of the matter."
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"I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement."
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"Notre nature est dans le mouvement; le repos entier est la mort. Our nature consists in movement; absolute rest is death."
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"Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions."
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"Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent."
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"The non-violent movement seeks justice and reconciliation, not victory - or not just victory."
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"You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough."
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"The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry had arrived. Women were starting to say that you got to tell the truth now, that you had to tell the truth if you were going to heal and have an authentic life."
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"In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long."
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"When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak."
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"[Political movements] both favor alcohol and are against pot."
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"Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage."
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"In the days that follow, it's movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay."
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"It's easy to forget history or give it a cliff notes. The cliff notes of history. But mainly, so much of what happens in 'Eyes on the Prize' happened in Jackson, Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi isn't really known for any other touchstone to the movement, other than Medgar Evers being killed. There were sit-ins and riots and atrocities."
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"What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car!"
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"The lunatic fringe in all reform movements."
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