"In my utopia, human solidarity would be seen not as a fact to be recognized by clearing away 'prejudice' or burrowing down to previously hidden depths, but, rather, as a goal to be achieved. It is to be achieved not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers."
~ Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989)