Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. (Annie Lennox)

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Annie Lennox

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