The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear

The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
by Paul Loeb

The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
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Author: Paul Loeb
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-17
ISBN: 0465041663
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Basic Books

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Book Review: Inspiring Collection!
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is an amazing collection of stories that give hope for a better tomorrow. I just read it for the third time since 2006 and I would recommend it to everybody. From Nelson Mandela, Arundhati Roy, Alice Walker, to Desmond Tutu and others, the stories collected in "The Impossible Will Take a Little While" bring to the surface the best human beings can offer.

Summary of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear

What keeps us going when times get tough? How do we act to create a more humane world, no matter how hard it seems? How do we offer models of involvement for our students when many feel their actions cannot matter? The Impossible Will Take a Little While gathers stories and essays of engagement that range across nations, eras, and political movements. These visionary and eloquent voices include Diane Ackerman, Sherman Alexie, Maya Angelou, Mary Catherine Bateson, Ariel Dorfman, Marian Wright Edelman, Eduardo Galeano, Susan Griffin, V?clav Havel, Seamus Heaney, Tony Kushner, Jonathan Kozol, Bill McKibben, Nelson Mandela, Pablo Neruda, Henri Nouwen, Arundhati Roy, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Terry Tempest Williams, and Howard Zinn. Their voices can help us all keep working for a better world, despite the obstacles. In The Impossible Will Take a Little While, a phrase borrowed from Billie Holliday, the editor of Soul of a Citizen brings together fifty stories and essays that range across nations, eras, wars, and political movements. Danusha Goska, an Indiana activist with a paralyzing physical disability, writes about overcoming political immobilization, drawing on her history with the Peace Corps and Mother Teresa. Vaclav Havel, the former president of the Czech Republic, finds value in seemingly doomed or futile actions taken by oppressed peoples. Rosemarie Freeney Harding recalls the music that sustained the civil rights movement, and Paxus Calta-Star recounts the powerful vignette of an 18-year-old who launched the overthrow of Bulgaria's dictatorship. Many of the essays are new, others classic works that continue to inspire. Together, these writers explore a path of heartfelt community involvement that leads beyond despair to compassion and hope. The voices collected in The Impossible Will Take a Little While will help keep us all working for a better world despite the obstacles.

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