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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.”
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“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
“I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.”
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“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care”
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Jo’s 2025 Year in Books
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