Quotes are from What Can One Do? (from Philosophy: Who Needs It?):
If you are seriously interested in fighting for a better world, begin by identifying the nature of the problem. The battle is primarily intellectual (philosophical), not political. Politics is the last consequence, the practical implementation, of the fundamental (metaphysical-epistemological-ethical) ideas that dominate a given nation’s culture.
An organized movement has to be preceded by an educational campaign, which requires trained—self-trained—teachers (self-trained in the sense that a philosopher can offer you the material of knowledge, but it is your own mind that has to absorb it). Such training is the first requirement for being a doctor during an ideological epidemic—and the precondition of any attempt to “change the world.”
It is too early for a movement of people dedicated to a philosophy of reason.
There is more in the essay. I think you should read the whole of it.
In the essay she also says you should speak up (given you know what you’re saying) when the opportunity arises, but not proselytize.
Most men are not intellectual innovators, but they are receptive to ideas, are able to judge them critically and to choose the right course, when and if it is offered.
I disagree that most men are receptive to ideas and are able to critically analyze them, especially political ideas. Critical thinking needs to be improved among most people.
I’m busy, I’ll reply to your reply to me at some point.