[PW] Margaret Mead Quote

[Shapiro, Fred]

I checked the original book, and found that this quotation is indeed attributed to Margaret Mead in _Earth at Omega: Passage to Planetization_ (1982).

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]
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Thanks to all who helped with this question.

Regards,

Sheila Martin, MLS

On Dec 3, 2007 6:45 AM, Shapiro, Fred <Fred.Shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> 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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> 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.
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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
>
> 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
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>
> Dan
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org
> > [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On
> > Behalf Of Shapiro, Fred
> > Sent: 01 December 2007 15:10
> > To: list at project-wombat.org
> > 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> > 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
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> > 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
> > To: list at project-wombat.org
> > 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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