All Todd Gitlin Quotes
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
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Like Americans, people outside America want fun, want an emotional compensation for the utilitarianism and calculation that mark the rest of their lives.
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The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
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The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
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I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.
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Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
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Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.
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Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
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Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.
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Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
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As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
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American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
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A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
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All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
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