Author: Todd Gitlin

Quotes

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

- Todd Gitlin

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.

- Todd Gitlin

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

- Todd Gitlin

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

- Todd Gitlin

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.

- Todd Gitlin

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.

- Todd Gitlin

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

I don't think anyone in the media thinks strategically about society.

- Todd Gitlin

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.

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.

- Todd Gitlin

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

- Todd Gitlin

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