We Need to Build

We Need to Build
Author :
Publisher : Beacon Press
Total Pages : 226
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780807024065
ISBN-13 : 0807024066
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis We Need to Build by : Eboo Patel

Download or read book We Need to Build written by Eboo Patel and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You don’t create societies by burning things down, You create societies by building things.” From the former faith adviser to President Obama comes a fresh manifesto for those who seek to promote positive change and build a more diverse and just democracy The goal of social change work is not a more ferocious revolution; it is a more beautiful social order. It is harder to organize a fair trial than it is to fire up a crowd, more challenging to build a good school than it is to tell others they are doing education all wrong. But every decent society requires fair trials and good schools, and that’s just the beginning of the list of institutions and structures that need to be efficiently created and effectively run in large-scale diverse democracy. We Need to Build is a call to create those institutions and a guide for how to run them well. In his youth, Eboo Patel was inspired by love-based activists like John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Badshah Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Their example, and a timely challenge to build the change he wanted to see, led to a life engaged in the particulars of building, nourishing, and sustaining an institution that seeks to promote positive social change—Interfaith America. Now, drawing on his twenty years of experience, Patel tells the stories of what he’s learned and how, in the process, he came to construct as much as critique and collaborate more than oppose. His challenge to us is clear: those of us committed to refounding America as a just and inclusive democracy need to defeat the things we don’t like by building the things we do.


We Need to Build Related Books

We Need to Build
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Eboo Patel
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-05-10 - Publisher: Beacon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“You don’t create societies by burning things down, You create societies by building things.” From the former faith adviser to President Obama comes a fre
Design Justice
Language: en
Pages: 358
Authors: Sasha Costanza-Chock
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-03 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological surviva
The Only Leadership Book You'll Ever Need
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Peter Barron Stark
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-20 - Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Every organization faces challenges and hardships. The Only Leadership Book You’ll Ever Need teaches leaders how to overcome their most difficult obstacle: em
How to Plan, Subcontract and Build Your Dream House
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Warren V. Jaeger
Categories: Architecture, Domestic
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Trojan Homes

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

-- Covers the subject from land issues, through the entire construction process, all the way to plandng the lawn.-- Contains anecdotes, real life examples, diag
A Time to Build
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Yuval Levin
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-21 - Publisher: Basic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A leading conservative intellectual argues that to renew America we must recommit to our institutions Americans are living through a social crisis. Our politics