Hillary Clinton Discusses 'People Who Can Motivate And Empower' With CEOs At CGI Fireside Chat

Well, I think that's good advice for life, as well as everything else. You know, TGI is all about problem-solving and partnerships, and Carmen, you are specifically focusing on organizers, people who can motivate and empower others. So in that context, advise our community of doers here, what is it that you want them to be thinking about? How do you want them to be organizing to meet these big challenges? I love this question because I feel like too often we don't talk about the how, and I think we forget about the extraordinary things that ordinary people have come together to win for all of us. The five-day work week, the Civil Rights Act, fair housing. These were things that were brought to us, to all of us that live in this country, because ordinary people came together and believed that we deserved better. And the gift for me of community organizing is that it's reflective of this quote that I love to share with people, that it's hard to hate people up close. And the gift of community organizing is that it brings people closer together, and at first they come together and they commiserate, and they're like, why is my rent so high? Why am I working 60 hours a week and barely able to make ends meet? And then something really powerful happens. They realize they're not alone. They look around and they say, this is my neighbor, this is my friend, this is the stranger down the street, and we are confronting the same problems. And these problems aren't the result of any choices that they've made, but they're the result of a system, a system built by people that believe that opportunity is a good to be hoarded, rather than what it really is, which is an infinite resource meant to be shared. The gift for me of community organizing is that it creates that connective tissue across people, across difference, across place. The most amazing stories are in rural communities across this country where new immigrants are working with people who have been there for generations to make their conditions better. And I think that there's no better antidote to the afflictions that we're facing right now than this bringing together that community organizing allows for.