## Metadata - Author: [[lithub.com]] - Full Title: Rebecca Solnit: The Slow Road to Sudden Change - Category: #articles - URL: https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-before-the-uprising-comes-the-work/ ## Highlights - A great public change is the ratification of innumerable small private changes; - The best ideas that change the world emerge from the shadows and the margins; they are at first ignored, then regarded with alarm or disdain by many outside those zones, and they work their way inward. When they are a consensus idea, that’s the end of the insurrection, or the waterfall, and politicians are smoothing things over and people have accepted the idea that they at first resisted, whether it’s the abolition of slavery or the right to marriage equality - Political scientist Erica Chenoweth of the Crowd Counting Consortium says that for sheer number of places and participants this is the biggest protest in US history.