"Specifying sorrow can capture the attention of whole nations.
In the summer of 2015, hundreds of thousands of people were fleeing from war. One family, having escaped from Syria, paid smugglers for a motorboat to take them from Turkey to Greece. But what the smugglers gave them instead was a rubber raft. With no other choice, they tried to use it. High waves spilled the family into the ocean, and the father tried desperately to hold his children's heads above water long enough to keep them from drowning. But when he was washed ashore, he was the only member of his family alive. The body of his three-year-old son, Aylan, was lying facedown on the sand, the edge of the ocean that had killed him lapping gently on his cheek. A photographer shot a picture of Aylan and within hours it rocketed around the world on the Internet. Immigrants, suddenly, were no longer statistics."
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"Alan Alda’s If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?: My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating" - PMC
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6132044/
