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The Body is Humankind

I am a single cell in a body of four billion cells. The body is humankind.

I am a single cell. My needs are individual, but they are not unique.

I am interlocked with other human beings in the consequences of our actions, thoughts, and feelings.

I will work for human unity and human peace, for a moral order in harmony with the order of the universe.

Together we share the quest for a society of the whole, equal to our needs.

A society in which we need not live beneath our moral capacity and in which justice has a life of its own.

We are single cells in a body of four billion cells. The body is humankind.

Words by Norman Cousins