For any student government leaders who have ever been frustrated by the challenge of mobilizing your fellow students (and we’re betting that’s all of you), we have a recommendation for your reading list: the new edition of “The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times” by Paul Loeb.
The book brings together the voices of eloquent writers to talk about how they replenish the wells of commitment, exploring what keeps them going in the face of constant challenges. Some essays address our current political time, from memoirs of the Arab Spring to dispatches from the environmental movement. Others examine how people persisted in past struggles that could easily have been deemed unwinnable: what it was like to confront South African apartheid, Eastern European dictatorships, Mississippi’s entrenched segregation, or the bigotry that kept gays silent and closeted.
Contributers to the book include Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, Marian Wright Edelman, Wael Ghonim, Vaclav Havel, Paul Hawken, Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Kozol, Tony Kushner, Audre Lorde, Nelson Mandela, Bill McKibben, Bill Moyers, Pablo Neruda, Mary Pipher, Arundhati Roy, Dan Savage, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Terry Tempest Williams, and Howard Zinn.
You can read more and order a copy of the book here.
For any student government leaders who have ever been frustrated by the challenge of mobilizing your fellow students (and we’re betting that’s all of you), we have a recommendation for your reading list: the new edition of “The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times” by Paul Loeb.
The book brings together the voices of eloquent writers to talk about how they replenish the wells of commitment, exploring what keeps them going in the face of constant challenges. Some essays address our current political time, from memoirs of the Arab Spring to dispatches from the environmental movement. Others examine how people persisted in past struggles that could easily have been deemed unwinnable: what it was like to confront South African apartheid, Eastern European dictatorships, Mississippi’s entrenched segregation, or the bigotry that kept gays silent and closeted.
Contributers to the book include Maya Angelou, Diane Ackerman, Marian Wright Edelman, Wael Ghonim, Vaclav Havel, Paul Hawken, Seamus Heaney, Jonathan Kozol, Tony Kushner, Audre Lorde, Nelson Mandela, Bill McKibben, Bill Moyers, Pablo Neruda, Mary Pipher, Arundhati Roy, Dan Savage, Desmond Tutu, Alice Walker, Cornel West, Terry Tempest Williams, and Howard Zinn.
You can read more and order a copy of the book here.