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Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
In the course of an awards speech she noted, “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Many people who had never spoken out, never marched in the street, never joined groups, written to politicians, or donated to campaigns, did so; countless people became political as never before. That is, if nothing else, a vast reservoir of passion now stored up to feed the river of change.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Reestablishing a common sense of belonging and ownership of the future in this way is the precondition for “taking back control.”
Nathan Gardels • The Perils Of Smashing The Past
It is up to each of us as individuals to decide what we have to do, whether to be bystanders or to act. Hamlet lamented, ‘The time is out of joint. O cursèd spite, / That ever I was born to set it right!’;1 indeed, many feel an unavoidable sense of duty to act. But it’s very hard to do this work alone. Most of us need collaborators, resources and t
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