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Sep. 30th, 2004 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hiddenmuse"I do not believe the wicked always win. I believe our despair is a lie we are telling ourselves.
"In many other periods of history, people, ordinary citizens, routinely set aside hours, days, time in their lives for doing the work of politics, some of which is glam and revolutionary and some of which is dull and electoral and tedious and not especially pure — and the world changed because of the work they did. That's what we're starting now. It requires setting aside the time to do it, and then doing it.
"Not any single one of us has to or possibly can save the world, but together in some sort of concert, in even not-especially-coordinated concert, with all of us working where we see work to be done, the world will change. And we have to do it by showing up places, our bodies in places, turn off the f*cking computers, leave the Web and the Net — and show up, our bodies at meetings and demos and rallies and leafleting corners.
"Because this is a moment in history that needs us to begin, each of us every day at her or his own pace, slowly and surely rediscovering how to be politically active, how to organize our disparate energies into effective group action — and I choose to believe we will do what is required."
- Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
"In many other periods of history, people, ordinary citizens, routinely set aside hours, days, time in their lives for doing the work of politics, some of which is glam and revolutionary and some of which is dull and electoral and tedious and not especially pure — and the world changed because of the work they did. That's what we're starting now. It requires setting aside the time to do it, and then doing it.
"Not any single one of us has to or possibly can save the world, but together in some sort of concert, in even not-especially-coordinated concert, with all of us working where we see work to be done, the world will change. And we have to do it by showing up places, our bodies in places, turn off the f*cking computers, leave the Web and the Net — and show up, our bodies at meetings and demos and rallies and leafleting corners.
"Because this is a moment in history that needs us to begin, each of us every day at her or his own pace, slowly and surely rediscovering how to be politically active, how to organize our disparate energies into effective group action — and I choose to believe we will do what is required."
- Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
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