Healing our country is going to take what I call radical empathy. This is a moment to reach across divides of race, class, and politics, to try to see the world through the eyes of people very different from ourselves.
Hillary Clinton
Yale University Class Day 2018, 2018
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Die Geschichte hinter diesem Zitat
Clinton pivots from personal resilience to community resilience. She lays out the data: the country is more polarized than ever, with more liberals and conservatives and fewer centrists, partisan animosity growing as the middle shrinks. She acknowledges that 'the radicalization of American politics hasn't been symmetrical' — there are leaders who incite with hateful rhetoric and see the world in zero-sum terms. But her prescription isn't partisan combat; it's empathy at scale. She calls for returning to rational debate, finding ways to disagree without being disagreeable, and recapturing a sense of common humanity. The challenge is directed at Yale graduates who have already shown this capacity — the March of Resilience their sophomore year was the biggest demonstration in the school's 300-year history.