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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