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Reaching Through Hopelessness


A sizable number of people have become completely disillusioned with the present class society but have found no alternative except bitterness, apathy, despair, resorts to violence, or chanting determined hopelessness to each other. To reach these people will require the sturdiest optimism and the most intransigent firmness on our part—rejecting their painful emotional rigidities but insisting that the people themselves can take a different attitude, can be valuable in the struggle.


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Harvey Jackins


From page 620 of “Working Effectively 
in the Wide World” in The Benign Reality

(Present Time 202, January 2021)


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