I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. This week on Moyers & Company, stories

of courage and struggle from the icon Marshall Gans and what it takes for David to bring down

Goliath. To be a realist is to recognize that the world is not a domain in which the probable always happens.

I mean, Goliath is more likely to win.

But you know what? Sometimes David does.

And Rochelle Loforest and Madeline Janice on how people power delivers change.

Small victories aggregate to this larger sort of beating heart and people feeling deeply inspired

by each other, but it takes work.

Everybody deserves a good job and a decent life, and that our government, our democracy,

has the tools to ensure that.

Thanks for joining us. How do you handle the grim news of inequality, corruption, poverty, dysfunction,

and buffoonery that washes over us every day?

Well, you can tune out and ignore it.

Pretend it will go away until it's too late,

or you can look around, find kindred spirits, and throw your energies into the fight for justice.

That's exactly the summons we've heard from people at this table who have refused to give

in to the litany of woe. To that chorus, let us now add the witness of Marshall Gans.

He's an American maestro of organizing who himself has never given in to despair or given

over to fear. How can change ever happen if the powerful always win? There are conditions

under which, it turns out David can sometimes win.

At Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Marshall Gans teaches the next generation of organizers,

students from all over the world.

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