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The impossible will take a little while : a citizen's guide to hope in a time of fear

Author: Paul Rogat Loeb
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, ©2004.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Rogat Loeb
ISBN: 0465041663 9780465041664
OCLC Number: 54479564
Description: viii, 422 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 / Tony 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 -- 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 built America / Jim Hightower -- Faith works / Jim Wallis -- Composing a life story / Mary Catherine Bateson -- 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 -- From 'Natural Resources" / Adrienne Rich -- How have you spent your life? / Jalaluddin Rumi -- Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King -- 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 and Jack DuVall -- 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, as told to Paul Rogat Loeb -- From hope to hopelessness / Margaret Wheatley -- Still I rise / Maya Angelou -- Only justice can stop a curse, by 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.
Responsibility: edited by Paul Rogat Loeb.
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