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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times

by Paul Rogat Loeb

Essays on hope and sustained action

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  • Critical praise

    Praised by Oprah Magazine

    The book is praised as a magnificent anthology celebrating hope, courage, and taking action.

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Essays on hope and sustained action

Paul Rogat Loeb’s revised anthology brings together essays and stories by writers and public figures from different countries and movements, linking personal accounts of courage with efforts to challenge entrenched power. The subjects named range from South African apartheid and American slavery to Putin’s prisons and climate-change defeatism; the collection also includes material on the 2024 South Korean coup. Its organizing question is how people continue working for change when the odds seem overwhelming. With contributions from voices including Nelson Mandela, Alexei Navalny, Alice Walker, Bill McKibben, and Audre Lorde, the book places varied struggles and perspectives alongside one another without claiming that obstacles are easily overcome.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in essay anthologies about political and social movements.
  • Those seeking accounts of perseverance and hope amid difficult circumstances.
  • Readers interested in the named contributors and subjects, including apartheid, slavery, and climate change.

Themes

Hope and perseverancePolitical and social changeCourage in the face of entrenched powerCollective action

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Book overview

This collection brings together powerful voices from around the world to inspire ordinary citizens to keep working for change in an age of despair.

"A magnificent anthology celebrates hope, guts, and the power of taking action." --Oprah Magazine

In a world where each day can bring new reasons for outrage or despair, Paul Loeb answers with stories of hope, inspiration, and raw courage from heroes of world-changing political movements. In this comprehensively updated edition, Loeb helps us keep acting for change whatever the odds.

The Impossible Will Take a Little While shows what it's like to go up against Goliath and win--on battlefields from the 2024 South Korean coup, Putin's prisons, South African apartheid, American slavery, and defeatism about climate change. Authors include Nelson Mandela, Alexei Navalny, Bill McKibben, Diane Ackerman, Jesmyn Ward, Howard Zinn, Heather Cox Richardson, Alice Walker, Sherman Alexie, Vaclav Havel, Paul Hawken, Rutger Bregman, Bill Moyers, Audre Lorde, Mary Pipher, Tony Kushner, Maya Angelou, Pablo Neruda, Terry Tempest Williams, Desmond Tutu, and fifty-two other powerful voices.

Without minimizing the obstacles, their stories inspire hope to keep on pushing for what we believe.
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