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“I’ve been told that I cannot change shit, so I might as well stop torturing myself. My emotions are ridiculed and branded as childish. I have been told that the world has given up on my people. I have been told, and realise that on many occasions, I myself am viewed as an outcast by some of those suffering. I’ve been confronted and my answer is always the same: I care even in my most fucked-up moments. I care even when gates of shit pour open to drown me; I care because I am a citizen of the world.”
― Asaad Almohammad, An Ishmael of Syria

“If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back-but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.”
― Marian Wright Edelman

“All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“We should not be post-racial: seeking to get beyond the uplifting meanings and edifying registers of blackness. Rather, we should be post-racist: moving beyond cultural fascism and vicious narratives of racial privilege and superiority that tear at the fabric of "e pluribus unum.”
― Michael Eric Dyson, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

“I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us”
― Loren Eiseley

“Extremes means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind.”
― Frederick Glaysher