more clearly.
That principle can be carried forward by journalists, educators, community leaders, public officials, and ordinary people.
It can be practiced in classrooms, workplaces, family conversations, and public forums.
It requires patience. It requires curiosity. It requires a willingness to hear something that challenges our assumptions.
And it requires recognizing that the person on the other side of a disagreement is still a human being.
Donahue spent much of his career demonstrating what that could look like.
Remembering Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue died at 88, surrounded by the people