Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.
Social change comes through people.
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing their attraction.
I believe that social change has almost reached critical mass. So many people have undergone personal transformation that their effect on society is having a geometric - not arithmetic - impact. This coalescence of energies brings about meeting, networking, and a sophistication in communications that is unprecedented in history.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.
Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.