Sentence examples for ignite a movement from inspiring English sources

They are incendiary words and images meant to ignite a movement.

And Rosa Parks, by refusing to sit in the back of the bus, helped ignite a movement that has altered race relations throughout the United States.

My hope is that the story of Brittany Maynard will ignite a movement everywhere – to change outdated, inhumane laws across the world that govern end-of-life decision-making – so that no one has to suffer as my father did.

We're trying to ignite a movement.

It's open to everyone," says Borman of the moniker she hopes will ignite a movement.

Technology now makes it possible to ignite a movement.

Now, more than a year after he ignited a movement with his unsuccessful bid, that question is moot.

But Sanger, who would go on to establish the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, had founded something much larger than a clinic: she ignited a movement for women's reproductive freedom.

Between them they have five children, aged 8 to 25, yet they may just have ignited a movement that will change the world.

"To be sure, Warren – and grassroots economic populism more broadly – was already a rising force well before our efforts began … Although Run Warren Run may not have sparked a candidacy, it ignited a movement," they wrote.

Perhaps Trayvon Martin's death — and perhaps even the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial — has inspired and ignited a movement of people who, frankly, needed to be moved".