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Or in other words… what makes us human.

Reggie James • Social Climber

We who had been through the quake were present and connected. Connected to death, to fear, to the unknown, but in being so connected one could feel empathy, passion, and heroism as well. We could feel strongly, and that is itself something hard to find in the anesthetizing distractions of this society.

Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

We are not no one. We are here because God brought us into being in love and gave us work to do, saying in his still, small voice: ‘Bring a fragment of my presence into other lives.’

Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility

I believe that we are part of a natural world that is constantly changing, and we need to learn to adapt together and stay in relationship if we hope to survive as a species.

adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)

Nous sommes un peuple un.

Théodore Herzl • L'État juif (French Edition)

all life on Earth is intimately related. Like it or not, we are all kin: every human, every nonhuman animal, every plant, every insect, every microorganism. As individuals, we are simply the most recent leaves on

Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, t

The thing is, we’re human beings living our lives, doing the best we can. No one dropped us off with instruction manuals.

Kamal Ravikant • Live Your Truth

At this moment, we are unequivocally confronted with the need to reimagine our humanity and what it means to be living organisms sharing the planet with many other organisms, some living, some not. This is nothing new.

However, at this moment, we can plainly see how black, brown, queer and disabled bodies are devalued; how people who threaten the co