“What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) Mexican writer
"To See Ourselves as Others See Us", in Time, June 16, 1986.
“Horror was rooted in sympathy… in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”
— Joe Hill
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