“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”
Source: Love Is the Higher Law
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Context: I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. Because in actual fact, men and women have much more in common than they are separated.
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2011-08-05 broadcast
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)