00:00A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other
00:06side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger.
00:09You don't have that idea when you are a dictator.
00:14Nelson Mandela
00:18The only way to live is to let live, and the only way to let live is by mutual respect
00:23and understanding which requires communication.
00:27Mahatma Gandhi
00:31The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.
00:39Instead of dialogue, it is monologue, monologue, and monologue.
00:44Martin Luther King Jr.
00:49Dialogue is the most effective way of diffusing antagonism and moving towards understanding.
00:55It is about listening as much as speaking, about trying to hear the other's humanity.
01:02Desmond Tutu
01:06Listening is critical.
01:08And that requires a little bit of empathy, because you're listening to someone who doesn't agree with you.
01:15And you're not listening to them because you're trying to figure out how to beat them in an argument.
01:21You're listening to them because you're trying to understand what they're seeing.
01:27Barack Obama
01:31Empathy has no script.
01:33There is no right way or wrong way to do it.
01:37It's simply listening, holding space, withholding judgment, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of, you're not alone.
01:47Green Brown
01:51The best way to have an open mind is to listen to others.
01:55Learn from them and try to understand their point of view.
02:00Eleanor Roosevelt
02:04When I truly hear a person and the meanings that are important to him at that moment, hear him without
02:09trying to evaluate him, without trying to prepare some clever rebuttal, without trying to diagnose him, without trying to mold
02:16him in any way, I find I am entering a special world.
02:21Carl Rogers
02:25Seek first to understand, then to be understood
02:29Stephen Covey
02:33A successfully conducted dialogue is one in which all participants are prepared to listen to and learn from each other,
02:40where the best argument prevails, and where consensus, or at least mutual understanding, can be reached.
02:47Jürgen Habermas
02:51I raise up my voice, not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.
02:58Malala Yousafzai
03:02Dialogue is an encounter between men, mediated by the world, in order to name the world.
03:09Paolo Frari
03:12The public realm is built on conversation, on argument, on persuasion.
03:18Hannah Arendt
03:22You have to be very careful to respect others, to listen to them, to understand their point of view, and
03:32then to try to work with them to find common ground.
03:36Ngozi Okonjo-i-Wela
03:40True democracy is not based on the rule of the majority but on the participation of all.
03:46It is based on the idea of integration, not the integration of various individual wishes, but the integration of differing
03:54experiences and points of view into a new conception which is enriched by all that has gone into it.
04:01Mary Parker Follett
04:05The history of progress, of liberation, has been an expansion of the right to speak, to know, to hear, to
04:12understand.
04:14Rebecca Solnit
04:17To be loving is to be open to a dialogue, to be willing to listen to the other, to be
04:23willing to change.
04:25Bell Hooks
04:29The university is a space of critical dialogue, and it has to remain that way.
04:35It's a place where we can think about the world, and think about how to transform the world.
04:40Angela Davis
