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From the Ted Talk by Courtney E. Martin: This isn't her mother's feminism
Unscramble the Blue Letters
What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very ltfoy goals. Many of them are working in deeply intractable systems — the mriialty, congress, the education stsyem, etc. But what they managed to do within those systems was be a hzunaiming force. And at the end of the day, what could possibly be more important than that? Cornel West says, "Of course it's a failure. But how good a failure is it?" This isn't to say we give up our wildest, biggest dreams. It's to say we oraepte on two leevls. On one, we really go after changing these bkroen systems of which we find ourselves a part. But on the other, we root our self-esteem in the daily acts of trying to make one person's day more kind, more just, etc.
Open Cloze
What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very _____ goals. Many of them are working in deeply intractable systems — the ________, congress, the education ______, etc. But what they managed to do within those systems was be a __________ force. And at the end of the day, what could possibly be more important than that? Cornel West says, "Of course it's a failure. But how good a failure is it?" This isn't to say we give up our wildest, biggest dreams. It's to say we _______ on two ______. On one, we really go after changing these ______ systems of which we find ourselves a part. But on the other, we root our self-esteem in the daily acts of trying to make one person's day more kind, more just, etc.
Solution
- broken
- humanizing
- lofty
- military
- levels
- system
- operate
Original Text
What I learned from these people and others was that I couldn't judge them based on their failure to meet their very lofty goals. Many of them are working in deeply intractable systems — the military, congress, the education system, etc. But what they managed to do within those systems was be a humanizing force. And at the end of the day, what could possibly be more important than that? Cornel West says, "Of course it's a failure. But how good a failure is it?" This isn't to say we give up our wildest, biggest dreams. It's to say we operate on two levels. On one, we really go after changing these broken systems of which we find ourselves a part. But on the other, we root our self-esteem in the daily acts of trying to make one person's day more kind, more just, etc.
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