The ultimate sense of security will be when we come to recognize that we are all part of one human race. Our primary allegiance is to the human race and not to one particular color or border. I think the sooner we renounce the sanctity of these many identities and try to identify ourselves with the human race the sooner we will get a better world and a safer world. -Mohamed ElBaradei

There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world, I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary, and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair, and disrespect. -Nikki Giovanni

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We all woke up this morning and we had with it the amazing return of our conscious mind. We recovered minds with a complete sense of self and a complete sense of our own existence — yet we hardly ever pause to consider this wonder.  — Antonio Damasio

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be. -Studs Terkel

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -James Matthew Barrie

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. -Dolly Parton

Bicycles have no walls.  -Paul Cornish

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free. -Clarence Darrow

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. -Arnold J. Toynbee