There’s a real sweet spot between challenge and hope – leaders make pathways that keep both firmly in view.

Participating in a social action not only often involves a rearticulation of one’s story of self, us, and now, but marks an entry into a world of uncertainty so daunting that access to sources of hope is essential.

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Hope is the belief in the plausibility of the possible as opposed to the necessity of the probable. In other words it is always probable Goliath will win but sometimes David does. – Marshall Ganz (See video around 16.38 mins)

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Hope is that place between fantasy and certainty. It’s the could be, a place of imagination. It’s the place of possibility, it’s the place of imagination. – Marshall Ganz (See video around 16.38 mins)