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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
It was clear to us that social movements and activism can only take us so far in our mission.
Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.
I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.
Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.
The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them.
Understanding Hamas/Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the left, that are part of a global left, is extremely important. That does not stop us from being critical of certain dimensions of both movements.
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.