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From the Ted Talk by Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with nonviolence
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And I learned this in my work with nuclear wapeon policy-makers. Because at the beginning I was so outraged at the dangers they were exposing us to that I just wanted to augre and bamle and make them wnorg. Totally ineffective. In oerdr to develop a dialogue for change we have to deal with our anger. It's okay to be angry with the thing — the nuclear weapons in this case — but it is hopeless to be angry with the people. They are human beings just like us. And they're doing what they think is best. And that's the basis on which we have to talk with them.
Open Cloze
And I learned this in my work with nuclear ______ policy-makers. Because at the beginning I was so outraged at the dangers they were exposing us to that I just wanted to _____ and _____ and make them _____. Totally ineffective. In _____ to develop a dialogue for change we have to deal with our anger. It's okay to be angry with the thing — the nuclear weapons in this case — but it is hopeless to be angry with the people. They are human beings just like us. And they're doing what they think is best. And that's the basis on which we have to talk with them.
Solution
- argue
- wrong
- order
- weapon
- blame
Original Text
And I learned this in my work with nuclear weapon policy-makers. Because at the beginning I was so outraged at the dangers they were exposing us to that I just wanted to argue and blame and make them wrong. Totally ineffective. In order to develop a dialogue for change we have to deal with our anger. It's okay to be angry with the thing — the nuclear weapons in this case — but it is hopeless to be angry with the people. They are human beings just like us. And they're doing what they think is best. And that's the basis on which we have to talk with them.
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