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“Counterculture groups played an important role, from descendants of the
black power movement to hordes of young white anarchists.”(p.281)
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“The joy in disaster comes, when it comes, from that purposefulness, the immersion in service and sur-vival...”(p.306)
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“Every disaster is to some degree a social
disaster, and though a strong and united
society cannot prevent disasters, it can plan and prepare for them...”(p.266)
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“When I came to the Gulf Coast, I thought that my subject was the extraordinary communities of
volunteers that had sprung up in the wake of Katrina...”(p.247)
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The out-of-town volunteers were of-ten very different from the locals, emotionally and cul-turally.(p.288)
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“Of course that was a movement that came out ofthe black churches of the South, and so it was
religious from its roots on up.”(p.285)
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“It was white people talking about
the savage things other white people had done to
black people.”(p.247)
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“A black woman and white man were singing and playing music as people sat at long ta-bles talking and eating.”(p.288)
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“The world watched as a largely impoverished, largely
African Americanpopulation suffered in the hot, filthy ruinous city.”(p.240)
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“Half an hour later, I met an African American man who’d been in New Or-leans all his life.”(p.288)
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“Counterculture groups played an important role, from descendants of the black power movement to hordes of
young white anarchists.”(p.281)
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“A stocky, red-haired earnest
young manwho had recentlygraduated from Columbia University...”(p.300)
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“For acted upon, given a role, this is a love that builds society, resilience, community, purpose, and meaning.”(p.306)