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In A Paradise Built in Hell, her 2009 book about human response to disasters through history, Solnit describes how communities invariably come together during and after crises, developing new ways not just to survive but to thrive, healing old wounds, and finding joy in the process.
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
“To be anti doctrinal is to open yourself up to new and unexpected alliances, to new... See more
an identity embedded in local circumstance and a role in the global dialogue,
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
To me, the grounds for hope are simply that we don’t know what will happen next, and that the unlikely and the unimaginable transpire quite regularly.
Rebecca Solnit • Men Explain Things to Me
It’s important to say what hope is not: it is not the belief that everything was, is, or will be fine. The evidence is all around us of tremendous suffering and tremendous destruction. The hope I’m interested in is about broad perspectives with specific possibilities, ones that invite or demand that we act.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
You row forward looking back, and telling this history is part of helping people navigate toward the future.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Individual hearts and minds change; those who have been changed become aware of one another; still others are emboldened, in a contagion of boldness; the “impossible” becomes possible; immediately it is done, surprising the actors almost as much as their opponents; and suddenly, almost with the swiftness of thought—whose transformation has in fact
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