“If we start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive, we become more effective because our ideas or decisions are honed and tempered by that discourse. In a healthy, creative culture, the people in the trenches feel free to speak up and bring to light differing views that can help give us clarity.”
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“The text has in it the wizardry of politics—the fact that it is possible for a multitudinous heap of people to build a shared life by doing things with words.”
― Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
― Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
“I don’t ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of the resistors, almost always fails.”
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“Solidarity among human beings can happen spontaneously, as in a flood or fire, or by design, through organizing.”
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
“Beneath the Wikipedias and Facebooks and YouTubes and other shiny repositories of information, community, and culture—the Internet is, and always has been, mostly garbage.”
― The Internet of Garbage
― The Internet of Garbage
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