Bleeding hearts, unite.

Today’s SojoMail brought this quotation of the week, by Nick Kristof:

Bleeding-heart liberals could accomplish far more if they reached out to build common cause with bleeding-heart conservatives.

Kristof describes some of those bleeding-heart conservatives — evangelicals and Catholics — who are pouring their hearts and souls into fighting AIDS, hunger, and genocide. His conclusion about these conservatives:

We can disagree sharply with their politics, but to mock them underscores our own ignorance and prejudice.