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“To be effective at selling ideas, at being a lobbyist, influencing other people, you have to be very sure of yourself.”

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We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits…

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Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people…

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There's a diversion between economic reality - integration, global village, everybody depending on everybody else - and cultural reality, which is people feeling invaded, undermined, threatened, wanting to have "stand-your-ground" legislation all over the place. It's alarming because at the moment, the fear is outweighing the benefits, and that's partially because the benefits have been so unequally distributed that lots…

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Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that…

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The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

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I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are…

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In any system, there will be change happening without you.

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Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy.

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If you were disabled in Russia, you had to re-register every year, and it took up to six months to re-register, so people who…

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What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

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Economists who studied in the '80s tend to have a pretty crude neoclassical view that's just about freeing up prices and markets, and then…

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Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

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The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

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