If a girl who skips school out of fear of harassment, that threatens my dignity. If a little boy dies in a war that he didn\u2019t start and never understood, part of me dies with him.
\nBut today, that promise of a connected world is giving way to division, fear, and conflict. We\u2019re starting to believe those who think differently, vote differently, or pray differently, whether they are across the ocean or sitting right next to us, are not just wrong. We mistakenly see them as evil. But it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.
\nWhat I\u2019ve gained most from Harvard isn\u2019t just calculus or regression analysis. It\u2019s to sit with discomfort, listen deeply, and stay soft in hard times. Because if we still believe in a shared future, let us not forget those who we label as enemies, they too are human. In seeing their humanity, we find our own.
\nIn the end, we do not rise by proving each other wrong. We rise by refusing to let one another go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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