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Melinda French Gates
“Conversation accelerates change when the people who are talking to each other are getting better—and I don’t mean human beings getting better at science and technology; I mean human beings getting better at being human. The gains in rights for women, for people of color, for the LGBTQ community, and for other groups that have historically faced discrimination are signs of human progress. And the starting point for that human improvement is empathy. Everything flows from that. Empathy allows for listening and listening leads to understanding. That’s how we gain a common base of knowledge. When people can’t agree, it’s often because there is no empathy, no sense of shared experience. If you feel what others feel, you’re more likely to see what they see. Then you can understand one another. Then you can move to the honest and respectful exchange of ideas that is the mark of a successful partnership. That’s the source of partnership.”
Melinda French Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

Kevin    Wilson
“You took care of people by not letting them know how badly you wanted your life to be different.”
Kevin Wilson, Nothing to See Here

Jonathan Safran Foer
“I've raised my voice at a human only twice in my entire life. Both times at the same human. Put differently: I've known only one human in my entire life. Put differently: I've allowed only one human to know me.”
Jonathan Safran Foer, Here I Am

Elizabeth Acevedo
“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

Matthew Desmond
“Arleen’s children did not always have a home. They did not always have food. Arleen was not always able to offer them stability; stability cost too much. She was not always able to protect them from dangerous streets; those streets were her streets. Arleen sacrificed for her boys, fed them as best she could, clothed them with what she had. But when they wanted more than she could give, she had ways, some subtle, others not, of telling them they didn’t deserve it.”
Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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