“The new political awareness has little to do with parties or ideologies. Its constituents don't come in blocs. Power that is never surrendered by the individual cannot be brokered. Not by revolution or protest but by autonomy, the old slogan becomes a surprising fact: Power to the people. One by one by one.”

— Marilyn Ferguson

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power, p. 240

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