I admire the temperament and courage of people who are willing to have the acrimonious argument and stage the defiant protest. They apply heat and they take heat.

When we are unsure of whether an important identity has been granted by others, our craving for affirmation becomes more intense and urgent.

We redefine what it means to be a good person as someone

America is not always the country it means to be.

Like me and you, they are good people looking to do better, trying to be the people they mean to be.

Moral identity is a measure of whether I care about being a good person, not whether I am a good person.

The narrative of big, bold action in social change is largely mythical.

Black and Hispanic job applicants are more likely to apply for jobs when black or Hispanic representatives are depicted in company recruitment materials.

many people had good intentions going into this project. They were believers. Still, these intentions did not translate into their becoming builders, or prevent them from choosing a winner from the most overrepresented profile in Hollywood: a straight white male director with film-school training. Brittany winces as she remembers, “It felt like