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" What I am learning is how important it is for me as part of the majority to talk less and listen more to the minority voice. I'm starting to see that because I haven't lived the minority experience and because I have for all my life 'reaped comfort from being white' in a white-dominated society, I should be quick to listen and slow to speak. I should presume less, offer fewer solutions, and ask a lot more questions. For only when I listen to the pain of the minority am I able to love across the lines of difference in ways that are helpful and not hurtful. "

Scott Sauls , Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear


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Scott Sauls quote : What I am learning is how important it is for me as part of the majority to talk less and listen more to the minority voice. I'm starting to see that because I haven't lived the minority experience and because I have for all my life 'reaped comfort from being white' in a white-dominated society, I should be quick to listen and slow to speak. I should presume less, offer fewer solutions, and ask a lot more questions. For only when I listen to the pain of the minority am I able to love across the lines of difference in ways that are helpful and not hurtful.