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I was lucky to learn at a young age that your neighbors can truly change your life, like you’ve changed mine…But now five years after becoming a pop artist, young activist and a traveling gypsy – as I have no residence – I have learned that in fact the universe is so wide and so enormous that we are actually, on this earth, all neighbors. The earth is much smaller and much more vulnerable than we all think.
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So world, breed compassion. Can we put compassion above all things? Can we be brave enough to fight for peace with no fight at all?
"Excerpt from Lady Gaga’s LennonOno Grant for Peace Acceptance Speech (click here for full video)
"We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict."
President Bill Clinton
Peace TODAY.
Another year has come and gone, and the day is finally here.
Today is the UN International Day of Peace.
I’m celebrating and honoring this day in two ways: (1) my colleague, friend, and brother Koffi from western African is being sworn in as a United States citizen; and (2) I will spend it with my Freedom House family, a group of truly remarkable individuals who personify peace. Let this just be the beginning.
How will you make peace today?
Let today be a gateway into a lifetime of peace. (Peace One Day)
new mindset.
the world is my village.
I AM CONGO
brilliant.
this.
today’s insight from the Dalai Lama.
"We need to refute the idea that our nation is different from, morally superior to, the other imperial powers of world history. We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation."
proud to be an American. proud of our roots, our foundation, and what the Fourth of July represents (i.e. freedom from oppression). nevertheless, i can’t help by strongly connect with this brief piece written by the late, great Howard Zinn a few years back.
please take a moment to give it a quick read. process it. think about it. contemplate it.
it’s time to embrace all, and be allegiant to humanity.
"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"
Dorothy Day
"Where the law of an eye for an eye obtains, in the end all will be blind. If we don’t learn to live as brothers, we will die together as fools."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
happy mothers day.
all this wishes prove that we are all the same, despite where we come from, what religion we practice, who we love, what gender we are, etc.
i desperately wish all would recognize it.
