started with an idea but they're making them

可能是一个很理念但是他们却使之
more powerful, more prominent and bigger.

更有效力更突出更壮大
That's one key to making social change and that's one area

这是做出社会改变的关键之一
where the people that we're going to talk about work.

也是我们所讨论的那群人工作的领域之一
Those--moving things from the bottom left to the right

那些在底部从左边移到右边的东西
is really a top-down approach for the most.

基本上就是一个自上而下的方法
You need government to be involved,

你需要政府的参与
you need laws, regulations,

需要法律法规
litigation perhaps, those sorts of things.

可能还要诉讼等等之类的
That really is a top-down approach that might work like this:

一个真正的自上而下的方法是这么运作的
where you get federal action or state action,

要让联邦或者一个州行动起来
usually in the forms of laws or regulations,

通常都要以法律法规的形式