social movement

a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group:
The push for civil rights was a social movement that peaked in the 1950s and 1960s.

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First recorded in 1830–40

Where the force generating those threats is a widespread, self-sustaining, and virulent social movement?

How can climate warriors build an unstoppable social movement—and avoid a global catastrophe?

New opportunities, however, arose with 2011's social movement, spurred by high costs of living.

Our record of effective activism is—by comparison to every other recent social movement—stellar.

They met every week, which is one of my rules for a successful social movement—have weekly meetings—and they planned.

In any social movement, then, change and alteration in a new direction must be balanced against the demands of social stability.

Simultaneous with the social movement there was a spiritual work accomplished in the personal, inner life of Moses himself.

In fact, unless a political invention is woven into a social movement it has no importance.

The important thing about a social movement is not its stated platform but the source from which it flows.

That, however, cannot prevent me from recognizing the kernel of justice in the great social movement.

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