Rebecca Goldstein Quote
Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.
Rebecca Goldstein
Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.
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