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ROFESSOR WAYNE BOOTH made this statement at a
V “1 94 ‘ national conference of scholars and teachers of writ~
E ‘ ‘> { ing held only months after 9/11, and it quickly drew‘a
q (, ~ – Y ‘ range of responses: Just what did Booth mean by this
stark statement? How could rhetoric-the art and prac-

tice of persuasion-act as a counter to war?

Throughout his long career, Booth explored these questions, identify-
ing rhetoric as an ethical art that begins with deep and intense listening
and that searches for mutual understanding and common ground as an

P alternative to violence and war. Put another way, two of the most potent
tools we have for persuasion are language and violence: When words fail
5 us, violence often wins the day. Booth, a noted critic and scholar, sees the
careful, ethical use of language as our best approach to keeping violence
and war at bay. Years later, Booth’s words echoed again, during the start of
V the Arab Spring of 2011 as a vast gathering of Egyptian citizens protested
in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, using rhetorical means of persuasion-~including
5: posters, tweets, Facebook status updates, songs, and more-to eventually
persuade President Hosni Mubarak to step down.
j So how can you go about developing your own careful, ethical use
of language? Our short answer: by learning to think and act rhetorical-
ly’ that is, by developing habits of mind that begin with listening and