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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20010422
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Henry David Thoreau once said "It takes two to speak the truth -- one to speak and another to hear." As Bill McKibben points out above, something very similar could be said about activist writing. It takes one to foment; but it takes another -- sometimes many others -- to bring about a result. A writer can craft an argument about a life- and-death issue in the finest, most crystalline prose, but if that argument doesn't inspire readers to action, it will not have done its work.

For McKibben, words weren't always the means to an end. He began his career as a reporter, a quintessential ...

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