The Antidote to Persuasion

Talk is not just like gentle dialogue in which we're not everything's talking. Talking broadly defined persuasion, broadly defined, is the antidote to authoritarianism. It's the antidote to civil war. And if you can't do that, the only other way is violence. I was desperate, I didn't feel like I had the in my own heart, the answer to how we get back on the road to persuasion.