[PW] Margaret Mead Quote

[Bye, Dan J]

There's an earlier attribution still.

"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

Attributed quote used at the start of Chapter VI: The politics of consciousness, p.79, in "Earth at Omega: Passage to Planetization" by Donald Keys. Branden Books, 1982. ISBN 0828317437.
http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/0828317437


Dan

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> Subject: Re: [PW] Margaret Mead Quote
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> The perfect-for-a-Christmas-present Yale Book of Quotations 
> found the following as its earliest occurrence of the Mead quote:
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> 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
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> However, I am told by an insider on the staff of the 
> every-library-should-have-one-copy-in-their-Reference-collecti
> on-and-another-in-their-circulating-collection Yale Book of 
> Quotations that the indefatigable YBQ researchers have now 
> come up with earlier evidence:
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> "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
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> Fred Shapiro
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> [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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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> Regards,
> 
> Sheila Martin
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