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.
Community thrives with listening, and can't survive without it.
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.
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