Breaking Bread: How We Find Our Way Back to Civility | David Beasley | TEDxFargo

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What if the simplest way to bridge our deepest divides is to sit down and share a meal? After years working on the front lines of global hunger as Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, David Beasley learned that food can do more than sustain us. It can bring people together. From war zones and famine to the growing divisions in American public life, Beasley reflects on what happens when we remember our shared humanity. He challenges us to look beyond politics, ideology, and differences, and to make time for genuine conversation with people who see the world differently. His invitation is simple: break bread with someone from a different background, culture, political party, race or generation.. Listen. Connect. Find the common ground. That is the pathway back to civility. Because America's greatness, he argues, is tied to its goodness, and rebuilding that goodness starts with each of us. David Beasley, a former Governor of South Carolina, recently served as

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