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<div class="">On Dec 9, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Hal Cato via ASAP <<a href="mailto:asap@episcopallists.com" class="">asap@episcopallists.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<h3 style="line-height: 15.600000381469727px;" class=""><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">I saw this </span><a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2015/12/making-a-new-decision.html" class="">Seth Godin post</a><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px;" class=""> earlier
this morning and it struck a chord for this conversation, as well as reminded me of a something I heard years ago from Diane Nash.</span></h3>
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<div style="margin: 1em 0em; line-height: 15.600000381469727px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.3em; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" class="">It's almost impossible to persuade someone that he's wrong. Almost
impossible to make your argument louder and sharper and have the other person say, "I was wrong and I will change my mind."</span></div>
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<p style="margin: 1em 0em; line-height: 1.3em;" class="">Far more effective: Help someone make a new decision, based on new alternatives and a new story.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em 0em; line-height: 1.3em;" class=""><a href="http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/t/0/0/sethsblog/~https://m.facebook.com/notes/arnold-schwarzenegger/i-dont-give-a-if-we-agree-about-climate-change/10153855713574658/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 143, 195); text-decoration: none;" class="">Arnold</a> got
it right in this passionate invitation to (re) think about our future.</p>
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<div style="widows: 1;" class="">On a side note: I remember listening to Diane Nash on a panel at the Downtown Library years ago commemorating an anniversary of the Nashville sit-ins. She was talking about her decision to not jump into a brewing debate she
saw heating up on the steps of city hall in 1960 as she and many others marched towards the Mayor’s office. Instead, she chose to ask Ben West a simple question--“Mayor West, do you feel it is wrong to discriminate against a person solely on the basis of their
race or color?”—that resulted in integrated lunch counters within days: Diane’s advice to the young people I had taken to hear her that morning stuck in my mind ever since: when dealing with injustices, always remember that questions are far more powerful
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