Our culture teaches us that we are all separate individuals. But human life teaches us different lessons.
One of the most damaging byproducts of our divided word is that we spend vastly more resources on criticism of others than awareness of ourselves.
The promise of many political leaders is that we can control a changing world without changing ourselves.
The biggest obstacle to progress in uncertain times is certainty.
Change begins by seeing things as they are.
Harm in democratic societies is rarely sustained by open cruelty alone; it is sustained by the ordinary choice to remain out of the debate.
Authoritarian leaders insist on conformity to their ideas because it suppresses the practice of courage.
Our stories define who belongs, who threatens, and whose suffering matters. Control the stories and you control how the laws are executed.
Community thrives with listening, and can't survive without it.
Publisher's Note: The social division and democratic decline in the United States will continue to the extent that it exhausts our capacity to imagine a new civic future.
When social justice is reduced to sympathy it tilts our civic balance. People become problems to be solved at the cost of time, emotion and money.
