Vincent Harding quotes

Vincent Harding quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You can't start a movement, but you can prepare for one”
-- Vincent Harding

#Movement Quotes
“We canâ€™t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones weâ€™ve been waiting for.'”
-- Vincent Harding

#Kings Quotes #Blessed Quotes #Voice Quotes
“A nation that combines the America predilection towards violence, the American stockpile of weapons and the American lack of empthy for the earth's humiliated peoples is a dangerous nation.”
-- Vincent Harding

#America Quotes #People Quotes #Earth Quotes
“We can’t sit back and celebrate Martin King and ask when will there be another like him. No, no my dear young friends. We must join our voices with that blessed poet June Jordan and demonstrate that 'we are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'”
-- Vincent Harding

#Motivational Quotes #Kings Quotes #Blessed Quotes

“I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.”
“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”
“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.”
“I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.”

Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
“I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.”

Source : "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.
“When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.”
“We must continue to liberalise the single market, cut red tape and basically create a digital single market. We have not completed the single market yet, there is not sufficient free movement of goods, labour, services and money. We have to keep on working at that against all the protectionist tendencies that we have right now.”
“The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.”
“We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.”

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