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Carter: On Empathy and Leadership

Post author By Peter La Fountain
Post date April 21, 2014
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At last week’s Civil Rights Summit, President Jimmy Carter frequently touched on the theme of empathy in leadership. “We meet with people who are outcasts in the world today,” he says about the Carter Center. In discussing the unfinished work of the civil rights movement, Carter mentioned those currently exploited and otherwise overlooked by society. […]

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Diversity at the Civil Rights Summit

Post author By Sarah Melecki
Post date April 14, 2014
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April 8-10, 2014 marked some of the best and most important days in my time as a student at the LBJ School. I am extremely proud that our school had a significant role in the creation and implementation of the Civil Rights Summit, marking the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. […]

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