Compassion: Toward a More Just Society
by Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson What kind of society do we want to be? This is a question I ask audiences of undergraduate students, law school students, faith communities — everywhere I can. The top two answers I hear every time: compassionate and just. In his Nobel lecture in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “A great nation is a compassionate nation.” According to the Dalai Lama XIV, “Love…