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    • Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times File

      Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change

       Expanding upon her previous writings on hope, Solnit writes in foreword to the 2016 edition of this foundational text of modern civic engagement:Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons.