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 OliviaB rated 4 months ago - painting by robert delaunay with thanks.
below, part of a speech by Harry Potter author
J.K. Rowling, to Harvard graduates recently.
There's some great stuff in it.
"Empathy is the most beautiful flowering of the imagination, and gives it moral coin, said Rowling....
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- OliviaB rated 4 months ago
- painting by robert delaunay with thanks.
below, part of a speech by Harry Potter author
J.K. Rowling, to Harvard graduates recently.
There's some great stuff in it.
"Empathy is the most beautiful flowering of the imagination, and gives it moral coin, said Rowling.
She recounted her own revealing experience of empathy's power, when in her 20s she worked in the African research department at the London headquarters of Amnesty International. In her little office, Rowling read the smuggled missives of men and women imprisoned by totalitarian regimes; studied photographs of the disappeared; and heard testimonies of rape, torture, kidnapping, and summary executions.
The experience provided a litany of mankind's evils, and gave her lasting nightmares, said Rowling. "And yet I learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before." "The power of human empathy," she said, "saves lives, and frees prisoners."
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