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Social movement   /sˈoʊʃəl mˈuvmənt/   Listen
Social movement

noun
1.
A group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals.  Synonyms: front, movement.  "Politicians have to respect a mass movement" , "He led the national liberation front"






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"Social movement" Quotes from Famous Books



... married people. Probably the happiest time of Princess Charlotte's life was the period which elapsed between the death of her lamented father and her exile to Breslau. She amused herself to her heart's content, fluttered about in Berlin like a butterfly, took a leading part in every social movement, was admired, feted and petted by everyone, but gave her worthy husband no cause whatsoever for uneasiness, and avoided all scandals, save those contained in the anonymous letters, for which she cannot really ...
— The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) • Mme. La Marquise de Fontenoy

... had not mistaken the significance of the general collapse of the political movements, but felt that their real weakness lay in the inadequate though sincere expression of their cause, and that the social movement, so far from losing ground by its political defeat, had, on the contrary, gained in energy and expansion. I based my opinion upon the experience I had had during my last visit to Paris, when I had attended, among other things, a political meeting ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner



Words linked to "Social movement" :   ecumenism, movement, oecumenism, artistic movement, political movement, Boy Scouts, social group, common front, reform movement, Zionist movement, religious movement, art movement, Civil Rights movement, cultural movement, Fighting French, Free French, falun gong, Zionism



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