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“This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.”
― Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
― Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
“Education leads to enlightenment. Enlightenment opens the way to empathy. Empathy foreshadows reform.”
― Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
― Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
“The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people's actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.”
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
― The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
“Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.”
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“How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view? Books are one of the ways in which we can truly get into the heads of people we would never meet in our ordinary lives and travel to countries we would otherwise never visit.”
― The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
― The Woman Who Fell from the Sky
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