Jacqueline Novogratz : What it takes to make change

 Jacqueline Novogratz·TED2020

What it takes to make change

Summary

I have words to remember always when I'm in difficult situations.

“It’s always darkest before dawn”

Meaning is that there is hope in the worst situations, don’t give up, and remember it’s always darkest before dawn.

The speaker in the story tells us the same.

“It’s in the darkest time that we have the chance to find our deepest beauty” so because of coronavirus, the economy is standing still around the world, thus it’s really in the darkest and severest time. However, no matter how hard it gets, there is always beauty to be found.

In the past, the speaker worked in Africa to help women who were sacrificed for money, marriage, and culture. She saved them, though, a big genocide occurred after that, many women who worked with her died. She struggled for a long time. Was it in vain?

However, a beautiful thing happened after 30 years. When she visited there again, the daughter whose mother worked with the speaker told the speaker to want to work with to change the country. What the speaker did in the past was not wasted.

It takes time, however, it’s time to change. The definition of success based on money, power, and fame is changing. We have to start the hard work of a moral revolution.

It’s a change against the cruel inequality, big polarization, and catastrophic climate change to create a better world.

The speaker shares three requirements.

Seeing others as equal to ourselves. It’s moral imagination.

Hoping opposing values in tension. Don’t stand on either side. It negates generative potentials.

Accompanying means to walk alongside.

For overcoming this economic situation, we need the story. Thank you so much.

Words in this story

It takes/ it needs, it requires

dawn/ dôn