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To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

The Courage to Be Yourself: E.E. Cummings on Art, Life, and Being Unafraid to Feel

Maria Popova

Civil society is both the site of association and mobilisation against the state; and a domain of free association that is understood as different – and separate – from the state, politics and government. Community is both a way of claiming collective identity as the basis of mobilisation and action and a domain of imagined organic, harmonious, social (not political) relationships. Finally, voluntary organisations may be either collective mobilisations by counterpublics or philanthropic, charitable provisions.

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

The forms and channels of abdication are many. One, in recent times, is most favoured. That is: leave it to the NGOs. Non-governmental organisations are supposed to be able to take care of gigantic problems affecting hundreds of millions of people. Problems that elected governments, with the full force of state machinery behind them, apparently can’t handle.

Everybody Loves a Good Drought

P Sainath

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