The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.
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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.
Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.
To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.
Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.
South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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.
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
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