Movement Quotes

“The walking of Man is falling forwards.”

“Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.”

“Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.”

“I am rooted, but I flow.”

“Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.”

“Getting old is not a matter of age; it's a lack of #‎ movement . And the ultimate lack of movement is death.”

“Like strange mechanical grotesques,Making fantastic arabesques,The shadows raced across the blind.”

“Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.”

“Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.”

“What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.”

“Mass civil disobedience is like an earthquake, a sort of general upheaval on the political plane.”

“A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation.”

“Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead”

“A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve.”

“Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”

“Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.”

“The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.”

“If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement.”

“Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought thatwas not born outdoors while moving about freely.”

“Inequality is the cause of all local movements.”

“Be as the still mountain; Move like the great river.”

“Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words.”

“We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.”

“When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.”

“Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.”