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What Michael Rubinstein and his colleagues were doing was making sure governments did the right thing without wasting so much time.

Be true to yourself. Get involved. Listen to your thoughts and feelings. If you feel a need to pull back, decide whether it's because it's hard or because it doesn't feel true. Listen to the latter, not the former. Remember the words of futurist Buckminster Fuller, who said, 'The things to do are the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done.'

Then answer this question: Isn't it time to find your way of leaving the campsite cleaner than you found it?

Sam Daley-Harris is the founder and head of RESULTS, a nonpartisan citizens' lobbying group that fights hunger, poverty, and death due to preventable disease. He is the author of 'Reclaiming Our Democracy : Healing the Break between People and Government.

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