[PW] Margaret Mead Quote

[Shapiro, Fred]

The perfect-for-a-Christmas-present Yale Book of Quotations found the following as its earliest occurrence of the Mead quote:

Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world:  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
     Attributed in _Christian Science Monitor_, June 1, 1989

However, I am told by an insider on the staff of the every-library-should-have-one-copy-in-their-Reference-collection-and-another-in-their-circulating-collection Yale Book of Quotations that the indefatigable YBQ researchers have now come up with earlier evidence:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."  Margaret Mead, Anthropologist and Author.
    Attributed in Aiken (S.C.) Standard, Aug. 5, 1986

Fred Shapiro


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Fred R. Shapiro                                           Editor
Associate Librarian for Collections and       YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS
  Access and Lecturer in Legal Research    Yale University Press
Yale Law School                                          ISBN 0300107986
e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu
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From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org [project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of Sheila Martin [smwmartin at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 1:38 PM
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Subject: [PW] Margaret Mead Quote

Hello:
 A patron is interested in finding the origin of Margaret Mead's quote,
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change
the world.  Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." From what I
understand, it may have come from either a newspaper, television or radio
interview.  It also may be in her book, *New Lives for Old*.  I think the
quote may have come about between the end of WWII and 1965.

I only have access to NYT from 1851 to the present and the Hartford Courant
from 1764 to the present.  I tried using the Lexis-Nexis Newswire and
Transcript database (for ha has), but I found nothing.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Sheila Martin
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