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There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

— John Prendergast

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

— Cory Booker

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.

— Freda Adler

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.

— Jim Wallis

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

— Rebecca Solnit

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

— Matt Taibbi

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

— Sergei Lavrov

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum.

— Jonathan Dee

✗Opposing Perspectives

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

— Todd Gitlin

If you look at the practice of 'crisis management,' and maybe squint at it a little, you can make out in the corners of your vision the ghosts or the vestiges of a much older, but still thoroughly American, form of public life, one centered not on public opinion but on religion.

— Jonathan Dee