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What Unites Us by Elliot Kirschner, Dan Rather
4.0

Although I grew up with Dan Rather at the anchor desk, it’s really been in the last few years on social media that I’ve come to see him as the national treasure that he is. A calming, steady presence during these tumultuous times. This was the right book in my hands this week with Election Day and the following days of waiting.

“It is true that the news headlines often paint a dark and dispiriting picture. But in every community, on every day, there are so many who choose to do the right thing.”

“I remind myself and others that we have been through big challenges in the past, that it often seems darkest in the present.”

“If we stand firm in our better values, do not shy away from challenging injustice, and can talk to one another rather than past one another, I am confident we can find the common ground that unites us.”