Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 3, "Journey to the Radical Middle," p. 22.
Famous Mark Satin Quotes
Page 180. The phrase "100 books" refers to Satin's list of 100 great New Age political books published since 1976. The term "Prison" refers to the Prison of consciousness, the basal concept in Satin's book.
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I am afraid to go on and say what I don't like about socialism. ...
Pages 93–94. It's the spring of 1965. Satin had dropped out of college to become a volunteer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The meeting above had been called by SNCC to explore SNCC workers' views.
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Source: New Options for America (1991), Chapter 19, "Twenty-eight Ways of Looking at Terrorism," pp. 167–68.
1. maximize choices for every American (and for the U.S. as a whole) as much as possible;
2. guarantee a fair start in life for every American;
3. maximize every American's human potential as much as possible;
4. be of genuine help to everyone in the developing world.
Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 1, "A Creative and Practical Politics," p. 6.
Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 12, "Bring Back the Draft, for Everyone This Time," p. 133.
Mark Satin Quotes about age
Page 201. The second word above was printed as "trying" in the second edition, but was printed as "refusing" in the first edition, page 78, and in the third edition, page 230. "Refusing" is consistent with Satin's argument.
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to.
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planetary cooperation and sharing. ... In Pat VII ... I argue for a strategy that would involve ... (a) healing self, and (b) healing society.
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Mark Satin Quotes
Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 2, "The Caring Person," pp. 17–18.
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Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 1, "A Creative and Practical Politics," p. 6.
Pages 196–97. Fall of 1966. Satin has dropped out of SUNY and is sitting in his girlfriend's apartment in Manhattan. The application is for Canadian immigrant status. Keith, a supportive college professor, is seen by Satin as a plastic sellout.
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Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 16, "You Can Have a Career and Be Political, Too," pp. 176–77.
Pages 5–6.
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Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 1, "A Creative and Practical Politics," p. 5.
Economic growth. We proved that an economy could grow seemingly forever;
The welfare state. We proved that a society could be held together by giving people more and more rights, more and more "entitlements";
Policing the world. We proved that a nation could become so powerful and awe-inspiring that it could successfully police the whole world.
"Preface," p. vii.
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Racism, militarism, exploitation, ecocide, etc., are also rooted in the Prison.
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Page 206. Spring of 1967. Satin had flown home to Wichita Falls, Texas, to tell his family he was immigrating to Canada. His father is a college professor.
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Source: New Options for America (1991), Chapter 13, "National Holistic Health Care Program: Too Sensible?," p. 100.
So by one A.M. we are on the road. ...
Page 40. It's the fall of 1964. Satin is a freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. "Plastic" became one of his favorite adjectives.
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Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 11, "Long Live Biotech – With Adult Supervision," p. 116.
Source: Radical Middle (2004), Chapter 1, "A Creative and Practical Politics," p. 3.
Pages 132–33. The first sentence refers to early New Agers Donald F. Keys of Planetary Citizens, Ervin Laszlo, and Richard Falk.
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Page 185. Satin had become president of SDS at SUNY Binghamton during the summer 1966 trimester. "Jean" is one of the far-left SDS leaders Satin had deposed. She is also the "girl" referred to n the previous quote.
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especially political things
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Source: New Options for America (1991), Chapter 17, "Siding With the World's Poor," p. 136.
Source: New Options for America (1991), Chapter 6, "Should We Protect Jobs – or Redefine Work?," p. 46.
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Page 140. Spring of 1966. Satin is a sophomore at State University of New York at Binghamton. The f-word is spelled out in the original. "SDS" stands for Students for a Democratic Society.
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Some would actually save us money!
Source: New Options for America (1991), Chapter 11, "Our Schools Need Imagination More Than They Need Money," pp. 84–85.
Source: New Options for America (1991), Chapter 8, "Rebuilding America – the Old-Fashioned Way," p. 57.
and which are what got us into the radical political movements in the first place
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Wakefield, Dan (March 1968). "Supernation at Peace and War." The Atlantic Monthly, vol. 221, no. 3, p. 42.
Overall
"Preface." In Woolpert, Stephen; Slaton, Christa Daryl; and Schwerin, Edward W., eds. (1998), Transformational Politics: Theory, Study, and Practice. State University of New York Press, p. xi. ISBN 978-0-7914-3945-6. Woolpert had been a member of the Alliance, see p. xi, and Slaton had worked with the Greens, see McLaughlin quote below.
New Age and Green activism
Jamison, Andrew (2001). The Making of Green Knowledge: Environmental Politics and Cultural Transformation. Cambridge University Press, p. 5. ISBN 978-0-521-79252-3. The author is discussing the period of the late 1970s.
New Age and Green activism