1.   A tempered radical may, for example, be an African-American woman trying to make her company more hospitable to others like herself.

2.   Meyerson cautions that life is not always easy for tempered radicals.

3.   Note, though, that tempered radicals are not radicals.

4.   Other tempered radicals use various negotiation techniques in order to bring problems into the open.

5.   People operate as tempered radicals for all sorts of reasons.

6.   Tempered radicals are people who operate on a fault line.

7.   Tempered radicals at once uphold their aspiration to be accepted insiders and their commitment to change the very system that often casts them as outsiders.

8.   Tempered radicals range from behind-the-scenes resisters to negotiators to those who work more publicly, organizing for collective action, she said.

9.   Tempered radicals also become angry, but they mitigate their anger and use it to fuel their actions.

10.   Tempered radicals take a variety of forms.