The Persuaders Quotes

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.”
― Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

“We were being explicitly taught: Don’t think that you are first to anything, pay attention to what preceded you, trust that you are standing on someone else’s ground until proven otherwise.”
― Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age

“All this is new to white people, because white people generally think they can just do what they want. There’s no consulting, there’s no talking to people of color about what they think. So we were putting them through a lot of exercises.”
― Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: Winning Hearts and Minds in a Divided Age

“So you don’t have to do the work I do. Do the work that works for you.”
― Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

“The angry opener also made it harder to pivot to a message of hope.”
― Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

“Shared value, problem, solution”
― Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy

“To be arguing on your opponent's conversational turf, on their terms, through their frames, is to concede before you open your mouth.”
― Anand Giridharadas, The Persuaders