Index
Since publishing our journal, humanity, more than thirty years ago, The Humanity Initiative has been offering a wide range of content that sheds an intense and empathetic light on our world, encouraging all of us to become changemakers, to discover fulfilling ways to participate in the positive change that sentientkind so deeply needs.
To that end, we have cross-referenced all of our content, inviting you to re-imagine and re-engage your personal discovery of the best way to take action, to contribute your necessary piece of the puzzle towards ending war, solving climate change and saving democracy, be it working alone or in partnership.
Partner Initiatives
Volunteer with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's microplastics initiative.
Partner Initiatives
Ashoka Changemakers - leading the way since 1980.
Quotations
"Our humanity is trapped..."
Quotations
"...make peace heroic."
Quotations
"What really matters..."
Partner Initiatives
Reforest with TreeSisters’ Restoration Strategy
Partner Stories
Doctors Without Borders (MSF): ten monumental moments
Photography
The Normandy Invasion (painting)
Photography
The blues of Lake Abiquiu, New Mexico
Partner Initiatives
Join CARE in fighting global poverty
Photography
Turmi Clay - Ethiopia
Photography
The grandeur. The mystery.
Photography
Afghanistan 1980's
Photography
Sisters, in Indonesia
Photography
Talking it over.
Photography
Alone on the Pampa de Anta, Peru
Poetry
Ulysses (1833)
Talks
It’s okay now but not like it should be.
Essie Pettway, Mary Lee Bendolph, Rita Mae “Rabbit” Pettway, Lucy “Toot” Mingo, and China Pettway.Quotations
"War is so unjust..."
Photography
Prayer beads, Western Tibet
Quotations
"Everybody counts..."
Documentaries
Conversations With History: Linus Pauling on peace
Partner Initiatives
Join the International Rescue Committee in aiding 33 million refugees worldwide.
Partner Initiatives
Help Danish Refugee Council aid refugees worldwide.
Poetry
Wild Geese (1986)
Quotations
"War is not an adventure..."
Photography
The Raft of the Medusa (painting, 1819)
Photography
The Lewis Chessmen
Photography
Family outing
Photography
Humanity Central
Quotations
"What good is a house..."
Quotations
"Man's capacity..."
Quotations
"My country is the world..."
Partner Initiatives
Join "The Spring" at charity: water.
Poetry
Invictus (1975)
Partner Stories
Moving education forward through clean water
Partner Stories
TreeSisters helps save Mt. Kenya's forests.
Quotations
"War is an invention of the human mind...
Quotations
"When the well is dry,..."
Partner Stories
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) doctor describes working in Gaza
Poetry
Desiderata
Partner Initiatives
Help Earth Law Center create a voice for our planet.
Quotations
"Teach this triple truth...."
Quotations
" become a cliche..."
Documentaries
Albert Schweitzer: Reverence for Life
Quotations
"...in truly effective thinking..."
Photography
Sleeping polar bear
Quotations
"You cannot ..."
Photography
Our spectacular diversity
Photography
Sauti World Map
Quotations
"Someday they'll give a war..."
Photography
Three old friends
Quotations
"...the wisdom which does not cry..."
Articles
"For reasons that are not well understood, war’s codes are safer...than love’s."
David Foster WallacePhotography
Osaka Rush Hour
Photography
Roadside skeptic
Photography
Woman selling shoes in Beijing, 1984
Quotations
"men argue.."
Commencement Speeches
Ten Ways to Avoid Mucking Up the World Any Worse Than It Already Is.
Russell Baker (1925 - 2019)Photography
The world as tile cutouts
Photography
Mahatma Gandhi
Quotations
"What really matters..."
Quotations
"One word frees us..."
Quotations
"Man has no right...."
Commencement Speeches
Introduction to our commencement archive and top ten speeches.
26 commencement speakersPhotography
Rawas River, Sumatra
Photography
Whispers of Spring - Japan
Partner Stories
Doctors Without Borders (MSF): "We dread nightfall."
Photography
Afghan home 1980's
Photography
Robinson projection
Photography
Our slice of life
Photography
Context
Poetry
A Conference in Time
Photography
Near Luxor, Egypt
Articles
The Humanity Initiative's blueprint for peace gatherings
Curated by Jacqueline Wigglesworth, THIQuotations
"...unless they kill in large numbers..."
Partner Initiatives
Help Rotary International advance world understanding through community action.
Quotations
"Everybody's ignorant..."
Commencement Speeches
Nine Life Lessons
Tim Minchin -- Australian writer, performer, composer, film maker and teacher.Photography
Farmer in Zanscar Valley, Ladakh, India
Quotations
"democracy is not..."
Photography
Afghan nomad family 1980's
Partner Stories
Rotary International is working to end polio.
Partner Initiatives
Support Human Rights Watch in protecting students from online surveillance.
Quotations
“Dictatorships are one-way streets...”
Quotations
" I have a scheme..."
Quotations
"Oh, Great warrior..."
Quotations
"A functioning..."
Quotations
"The sun, with all those planets..."
Partner Stories
World Wildlife Fund sponsors "Earth Hour" every spring
Quotations
"Democracy doesn't recognize..."
Quotations
"If you really think .."
Photography
Neighborly Maine
Photography
Homeward bound, Zanzibar
Photography
Tango dancers, Buenos Aires
Photography
Angel delighting in her wingspan
Quotations
"Peace is not an absence..."
Photography
Olive trees, Palestine, 1980's
Documentaries
The Movement and the Madman
Photography
Afghan money changers 1980's
Quotations
"No more war!"
Quotations
"He who is the author.."
Quotations
"War is only a..."
Photography
Athens at night
Photography
Afghan goat herder 1980's
Quotations
"...that makes planning the day difficult."
Quotations
"As long as war..."
Quotations
"The greatest menace to freedom..."
Quotations
"You can no more win a war..."
Photography
Naxi Blue – Lijiang, China
Partner Initiatives
Imagine, with Ashoka, a new type of museum, one full of innovations for society.
Partner Initiatives
Learn how a doctor from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) asks for help.
Quotations
"...then you win.”
Quotations
"I am not an Athenian.."
Quotations
"The strongest governments..."
Commencement Speeches
What We Wish to Become
Professor E. O. Wilson of Harvard University - and the world of ants...Partner Stories
Help Save The Children protect children in conflict
Photography
Shadong, China
Partner Initiatives
Help Parvati Foundation create a marine sanctuary in the Arctic Ocean.
Photography
The 3rd of May, (painting) 1808
Quotations
"...unless the people themselves refuse..."
Photography
Ixil, Guatemala
Poetry
Bottoms Up!
Partner Initiatives
Amnesty takes on climate justice
Photography
Nenet raindeer herder, Siberia
Documentaries
A master class in not taking ourselves too seriously...
Quotations
"We are in danger of..."
Documentaries
A Life on Our Planet
Poetry
If (1895)
Photography
Antigua cane cutter
Quotations
"Everything you do in war..."
Photography
Neist Point Lighthouse, Isle of Skye
Partner Initiatives
Volunteer for the World Central Kitchen.
Poetry
The Tuft of Flowers
Partner Initiatives
Learn how Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) must adapt to dozens of environments.
Quotations
"...because we do not dare..."
Partner Initiatives
Join the Peace Programs of The Carter Center.
Partner Initiatives
Learn, do, share, advocate, and amplify with Project Drawdown.
Partner Stories
World Central Kitchen celebrates lives of their heroes
Photography
Salt harvesting in Vietnam
Partner Stories
Danish Refugees Council reduces threat of landmines
Poetry
Love After Love (1976)
Photography
Peruvian boy, near Cuzco, 1970's
Quotations
"Give me a place to stand..."
Documentaries
River, an Australian film
Books
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words (2014)
Ella Frances SandersQuotations
"What really matters..."
Photography