Do you know what the difference between sympathy and compassion is? Times have been bad, if you’ve been reading the morning papers. It seems hard to stay consistent at being a good person, if you still care about that sort of thing.
We have a story for you, about a famous mayor of years past. The mayor of New York, in fact. Fiorella Laguardia was mayor of the city for the entirety of WWII, and during the Great Depression before that.
Laguardia was nicknamed the Little Flower for being a diminutive man, but what he lacked there, he made up for in heart. Read on to find out what Laguardia did, and learn the difference between sympathy and compassion.
