I am concerned about how to ...

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
 Todd Gitlin

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I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.
 Todd Gitlin
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
 Todd Gitlin
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 Todd Gitlin
The mobilisation which Bush has been able to perform since 11 September 2001 has to be fought - at least by Americans - in the name of a wise, honourable and democratic patriotism.
 Todd Gitlin
Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.
 Todd Gitlin