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The impossible will take a little while: a citizen's guide to hope in a time of fear
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Date
c2004
Language
English
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From the Book
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
Political paralysis / Danusha Veronica Goska
pt. 2. Dark before the dawn: from September 1, 1939 / W.H. Auden
The optimism of uncertainty / Howard Zinn
The dark years / Nelson Mandela
An orientation of the heart / Vaclav Havel
pt. 3. Everyday grace: The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry
from Last night as I was sleeping / Antonio Machado
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. The flight of our dreams: Celebration of the human voice / Eduardo Galeano
Childhood and poetry / Pablo Neruda
To love the marigold / Susan Griffin
Walking with the wind / John Lewis
Freedom songs / Rosemarie Freeney Harding
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 small work in the great work / Victoria Safford
In what do I place my trust? / Rosalie Bertell
Not deterred / Paxus Calta-Star
Rebellion is what build America / Jim Hightower
Faith works / Jim Wallis
Composing a life story / Mary Catherine Bateson
pt. 6. The global stage: Imagine the angels of bread / Martin Espada
Come September / Arundhati Roy
The black hole / Ariel Dorfman
Hope for human rights / Kenneth Roth
The green dream / Mark Hertsgaard
Curitiba / Bill McKibben
pt. 7. Radical dignity: from Natural resources / Adrienne Rich
How have you spent your life? / Jalaluddin Rumi
Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real Rosa Parks / Paul Rogat Loeb
Prisoners of hope / Cornel West
Behemoth in a bathrobe / Carla Seaquist
Road to redemption / Billy Wayne Sinclair
Resisting terror / Peter Ackerman, Jack DuVall
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
Hoping against hope / Nadezhda Mandelstam
The inevitability trap / K.C. Golden
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.
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