Zitat des Tages über Soziale Bewegungen / 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.
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.
Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.
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.
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.