| Description |
xii, 483 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"After 22 printings, editor Paul Rogat Loeb has comprehensively updated this classic work." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly overwhelming odds? In The impossible will take a little while, they answer these questions in their own words, creating a conversation among some of the most visionary and eloquent voices of our times. Ten years after his original edition, Paul Rogat Loeb has comprehensively updated this classic work on what it's like to go up against Goliath."--Book cover. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Seeds of the possible: from "The cure at Troy" / Seamus Heaney -- A slender thread / Diane Ackerman -- Ordinary resurrections / Jonathan Kozol -- Standing up for children / Marian Wright Edelman -- You are brilliant and the earth is Hiring / Paul Hawken -- Political paralysis / Danusha Veronica Goska -- pt. 2. Dark before the dawn: from "September 1, 1939" / W.H. Auden -- The optimism of uncertainty / Howard Zinn -- On being different / Dan Savage -- The dark years / Nelson Mandela -- An orientation of the heart / Vaʹclav Havel -- Reluctant activists / Mary Pipher -- pt. 3. Everyday grace: "The peace of wild things" / Wendell Berry -- Gate A-4 / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Mountain music / Scott Russell Sanders -- The Sukkah of Shalom / Arthur Waskow -- Getting our gaze back / Rose Marie Berger -- Fragile and hidden / Henri Nouwen -- There is a season / Parker Palmer -- pt. 4. Rebellious imagination: "Celebration of the human voice" / Eduardo Galeano -- "Last night as I was sleeping" / Antonio Machada -- Childhood and poetry / Pablo Neruda -- To love the marigold / Susan Griffin -- Walking with the wind / John Lewis -- Rough translation / Toni Mirosevich -- Jesus and Alinsky / Walter Wink -- Stories from the cha cha cha / Vern Huffman -- Do not go gentle / Sherman Alexie -- Despair is a lie we tell ourselves / Tony Kushner -- pt. 5. Courage is contagious: "To be of use" / Marge Piercy -- The transformer of silence / Audre Lorde -- The small work in the great work / Victoria Safford -- We are all Khaled said / Wael Ghonim -- Arab revolutions / Stephen Zunes -- Not deterred / Paxus Calta -- In what do I place my trust? / Rosalie Bertell -- Faith works / Jim Wallis -- The progressive story of America / Bill Moyers -- pt. 6. The global stage: "Imagine the angels of bread" / Martiʹn Espada -- Kids, trees, and climate change / Mark Hertsgaard -- Curitiba / Bill McKibben with a postscript by Laul Rogat Loeb -- Come September / Arundhati Roy -- The black hole / Ariel Dorfman -- Behemoth in a bathrobe / Carla Seaquist -- pt. 7. Radical dignity: "How have you spent your life?" / Jalaluddini Rumi -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- The real Rosa Parks / Paul Rogat Loeb -- Prisoners of hope / Cornel West -- Road to redemption / Billy Wayne Sinclair -- Resisting terror / Peter Ackerman, Jack DuVall -- Composing a life story / Mary Catherine Bateson -- pt. 8. Beyond hope: "Origami emotion" / Elizabeth Barrette -- from "The New York poem" / Sam Hamill -- Staying the course / Mary-Wynne Ashford -- The elm dance / Joanna Macy -- Is there hope on climate change? / David Roberts -- The inevitability trap / K.C. Golden -- Hoping against hope / Nadezhda Mandelstam -- You have to pick your team / Sonya Vetra Tinsley -- from Hope to hopelessness / Margaret Wheatley -- pt. 9. Only justice can stop a curse: "Still I rise" / Maya Angelou -- Only justice can stop a curse / Alice Walker -- The clan of one-breasted women / Terry Tempest Williams -- Next year in Mas'Ha / Starhawk -- The gruntwork of peace / Amos Oz -- No future without forgiveness / Desmond Tutu. |
| Subject |
Social action.
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Social change.
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| Added Author |
Loeb, Paul Rogat, 1952- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780465031733 (pbk.) |
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0465031730 (pbk.) |
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