26 Quotes About Social-movements

I think is inherent in humans to be driven by a cause. However, we must be able to differentiate between sensationalism and true facts. Otherwise we risk to sacrifice many things in life for the wrong cause; which may even include our own happiness.

Resistence can start and happen everywhere and whenever you want.

Buku ini mengungkapkan fakta-fakta yang sering dilupakan itu, kisah-kisah perlawanan yang dilakukan oleh rakyat awam, yang sering disepelekan sebagai ‘bukan siapa-siapa’ dan, karena itu, sering pula diabaikan dalam penulisan sejarah resmi atau dalam pemberitaan media arus utama. Pengabaian peran kaum jelata dalam penentuan arah sejarah inilah yang sering membuat kita keliru atau luput memahami fa’al (anatomi) yang sesungguhnya dari suatu proses perubahan.

We cannot fully create effective movements for social change if individuals struggling for that change are not also self-actualized or working towards that end. When wounded individuals come together in groups to make change our collective struggle it is often undermined by all that has not been dealt with emotionally.

Social movements are understood in relations to the openings they instigate in the political constellation of society as well as the closures that inevitably follow such openings.

But what really changes society are social movements, shifting how we think about things.

The story of white power as a social movement exposes something broader about the enduring impact of state violence in America. It reveals one catastrophic ricochet of the Vietnam War, in the form of its paramilitary aftermath. It also reveals something important about war itself. War is not neatly contained in the space and time legitimated by the state. It reverberates in other terrains and lasts long past armistice. It comes home in ways bloody and unexpected.

By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.