The best way to get people to connect with an issue is to humanize it. You can do so much more powerfully with music and touch the heart.
Interpretation
Humanizing issues helps to build emotional connections, especially through art like music.
This quote emphasizes the importance of making abstract issues relatable and emotionally impactful by presenting them in human terms. George Takei suggests that art forms, particularly music, have a unique ability to resonate with people on a deep emotional level, allowing for a more profound connection to important social issues.
In practice
In a presentation about social justice, you could use this quote to emphasize the emotional power of storytelling.
I remembered some people who lived across the street from our home as we were being taken away. When I was a teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my father about our internment. He told me that after we were taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We were literally stripped clean.
I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.
Back in the day, coming out was something very personal. You began by acknowledging the truth, first to yourself, then to close family and friends. Those of us more in the public spotlight, though, also had to 'come out' to the press.
My father told me about American democracy. And he said you have to be actively engaged in the political process to make our democracy work. So I've been doing that my entire life. Civil rights movement. The peace movement during the Vietnam conflict. The movement to get an apology and redress for Japanese-Americans.
I'm especially concerned about the future of this country, because I'm concerned about the gay people of the future. We need to ensure their good life by registering to vote.
In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well.
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
Take a good look at your life right now. If you don't like something about it, close your eyes and imagine the life you want. Now allow yourself to focus your inner eye on the person you would be if you were living this preferred life. Notice the differences in how you behave and present yourself; allow yourself to spend several seconds breathing in the new image, expanding your energy into this.
Brothers and sisters of Egypt, you have given the world the most precious gift: the belief that ultimately right will prevail.
Think _x000D_ of the most amazing thing you could possibly do with your life. Then _x000D_ say out loud, 'YES.'
I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.
Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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