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Movement Quotes



"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."


"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."


"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."


"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."


"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."



"Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving."


"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."


"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
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