Mobilization Quotes

• My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

  Huey Newton

  Fear, Politics

  "Revolutionary Suicide". p. 190. Book by Huey Newton, 1973.

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• Motivation without mobilization means only frustration.

  Nido R Qubein

  Motivation, Mean, Frustration

  Nido R. Qubein (1983). “Nido Qubein's Professional selling techniques”

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• This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Action

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• Leadership - mobilization toward a common goal.

  Garry Wills

  Leadership, Goal, Common

  Garry Wills (2013). “Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

  Billy Graham

  Church Today, Priorities, Evangelism

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, World, Favour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.

  Judith Butler

  Way, Facts, Remember

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

  June Jordan

  Country, Kings, War

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• When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.

  Stefan Zweig

  Peace, War, Talking

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• A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Religious, Military, War

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• Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

  Milan Kundera

  Sound, Individual, Partners

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• I think it's true that if Trump wins, there will be a real activist mobilization, no doubt about it.

  Allan Nairn

  Real, Winning, Thinking

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

  Van Jones

  War, Levels, World

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in God against this tide of Red agnosticism. It needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. I suggest that the United Nations should be reorganized without the Communist nations in it. It is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. It is a proposal to redeem the concept of the United Nations to the high purpose for which it was created. It is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of God-fearing free nations. And in rejecting an atheistic other world, I am confident that the Almighty God will be with us.

  Herbert Hoover

  Spiritual, Believe, Other Worlds

  "Herbert Hoover: A Good President Who Got a Bad Rap?". www.wnd.com. October 19, 2017.

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• I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.

  Ella Baker

  Simple, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and charitable acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.

  Murray Bookchin

  Art, Medicine, Goal

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• While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of what amounts to almost full mobilization in aggressor countries. Surely they cannot afford it and if they had any definite policy of trying to work out economic salvation (except by arms) they would be showing some signs of cutting military expenditures.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Summer, Country, Military

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• If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not have a real discussion of the emergency of climate change and why in fact we need a Green New Deal type national mobilization at the scale of a wartime mobilization in order to address this emergency.

  Jill Stein

  Real, Order, Addresses

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into a coordinated, no-holds-barred campaign - we will soon be crossing the threshold into climate hell.

  Ross Gelbspan

  Creativity, Energy, Climate

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• My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

  Huey Newton

  People, Community, Prison

  "Revolutionary Suicide". Book by Huey Newton (p. 190), 1973.

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• If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.

  Judith Butler

  Knowing, Trying, Doe

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• 　When the leaders speak of peace
  　The common folk know
  　That war is coming
  　When the leaders curse war
  　The mobilization order is already written out. Every day, to earn my daily bread
  　I go to the market where lies are bought
  　Hopefully
  　I take up my place among the sellers.
  　

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Lying, Common Folk

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• The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Order, World, Opinion

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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• Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.

  Thomas Homer-Dixon

  Technology, Opportunity, Reality

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• Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Passion, Sacrifice, Self

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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