Why Civility, Why Now?
Reclaiming the Foundations of Democracy in an Age of Division
“To go through this life with good manners possessed /
Is to be kind unto all, rich, poor and oppressed /
For kindness and mercy are balms that will heal /
The sorrows, the pains, and the woes that we feel.”
—Our Deportment, OR THE MANNERS, CONDUCT AND DRESS OF THE MOST REFINED SOCIETY, by John H. Young (1881)
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