Common Humanity

I hope you will reflect on what you’ve done with your talent and energy.  I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you work to address the world’s deepest inequities, on how well you treat people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.
—  William (“Bill”) Henry Gates, III
In a letter to the Harvard community
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