[PW] Margaret Mead Quote

[Shapiro, Fred]

I had seen that Google Books hit, and am in process of obtaining the original book to check it.  Google Books is notoriously unreliable on editions, and should not be trusted without checking the original book.

Fred Shapiro


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From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org [project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of Bye, Dan J [D.J.Bye at shu.ac.uk]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 6:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [PW] Margaret Mead Quote

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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> 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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> 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
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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.
>
> Regards,
>
> Sheila Martin
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