Michael Eric Dyson Quotes

The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

Michael Eric Dyson

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• Empathy
• Critical
• Manifestation

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• The problem is we are left only with empathy - which is critical, if it can be developed - without substantive manifestations of that empathy. It's one thing to attain it intellectually, but it's another thing to do something about it.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Problem
  • Empathy
  • Critical