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Quotes from Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial — Ellen Willis

1941–2006 United States

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Only movements with particular social visions and practical goals can give faith a concrete, real-world shape

Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial (1999)

Optimism of the will and, if possible, the intellect as well-is the engine of emancipation. ("Race and the Ordeal of Liberal Optimism")

Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial (1999)

On a world scale, militant nationalism has followed economic globalism as surely as it once followed colonialism; but while it has served as an outlet for strong and deadly emotions, it has never solved the economic and social problems that provoked it.

Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial (1999)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ellen Willis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.