Empathy and Cultural Dislocation

Photo: A Mile in My Shoes, Empathy Museum, U.K.

When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to the position of citizen, the most important stuff I’ve learned I think I’ve learned from novels.  It has to do with empathy. 

Barack Obama, in Conversation with Marilynne Robinson

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