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.

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Talks

PeaceTalks

Ten fellow citizens
Talks

We Are The World; 35th anniversary

A universal song of peace
Quotations

Books

The Lost Words (2018)

Robert Macfarlane
Articles

The larger cause of humanity...

Dr. Shashi Tharoor
Commencement Speeches

Truth and Indifference

Tom Hanks
Talks

We all wish Venezuela to become a democracy

Juan Manuel Santos Calderon
Commencement Speeches

Life is meaningless and absurd

Alan Alda
Quotations

Photography

Talking it over.

Commencement Speeches

The Earth is Hiring

Paul Hawken
Books

The World Ending Fire (2019)

Wendell Berry
Talks

The History of Fake News

Andie Tucher
Quotations

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.
Commencement Speeches

A Better Truth

Meg Greenfield
Commencement Speeches

Find What You Love

Steve Jobs
Commencement Speeches

Radical Renewal of Human Responsibility

Vaclav Havel
Quotations

Photography

Family outing

Commencement Speeches

Our Eternal Resilience

William Allen White
Commencement Speeches

Becoming Kinder

George Saunders, writer and professor
Photography

Humanity Central

Quotations

Books

Lord of the Rings (1954)

J. R. R. Tolkien
Talks

The private sector gets it right

Mariott Corporation
Quotations

Articles

No one is above the law.

Heather Cox Richardson
Quotations

Commencement Speeches

Analyzing the problem

Wendell Berry
Commencement Speeches

The Imitator Dooms Himself with Hopeless Mediocrity

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commencement Speeches

Failure and Imagination

J.K.Rowling
Articles

What if women ran the world?

BBC.com; history.com; one.org
Commencement Speeches

The Joys and Necessity of Bringing Diverse People Together

Ms. Gloria Steinem
Quotations

Photography

Sauti World Map

Talks

Yes, I’d give the devil benefit of the law...

Paul Scofield, as Sir Thomas More
Talks

The fierce urgency of now

Martin Luther King Jr
Commencement Speeches

That's Not a Cause. That's an Emergency.

Bono, Irish singer and activist
Books

The Odyssey (8th century BCE)

Homer, translated by Emily Wilson (2017)
Books

Paddington Bear (1958)

Michael Bond
Photography

Osaka Rush Hour

Photography

Roadside skeptic

Quotations

"men argue.."

Commencement Speeches

Ten Ways to Avoid Mucking Up the World Any Worse Than It Already Is.

Russell Baker (1925 - 2019)
Talks

Canoeros: Living Memory

The Kawésqar people
Commencement Speeches

Compassionate World Citizenship

Dr. Martha C. Nussbaum
Photography

Mahatma Gandhi

Commencement Speeches

What Must Be Done?

George C. Marshall
Talks

The AI Dilemma

Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin
Books

War is a Lie (2010)

David Swanson
Commencement Speeches

On Learning to Talk

William Howard Gass
Commencement Speeches

Introduction to our commencement archive and top ten speeches.

26 commencement speakers
Books

Horizon (2019)

Barry Lopez
Photography

Context

Books

The Lessons of History (1968)

Will and Ariel Durant
Articles

War is a Laboratory for AI

Tristan Harris, Center for Humane Technology, with Paul Scharre
Articles

The Humanity Initiative's blueprint for peace gatherings

Curated by Jacqueline Wigglesworth, THI
Articles

Human violence dramatically increases carbon

Nina Lakhani, climate justice reporter
Books

How Democracies Die (2015)

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Talks

What exactly is democracy?

Timothy Snyder
Commencement Speeches

You Are On Your Own Now

Taylor Swift
Articles

1,200 possibilities for Earth's future

Chris Mooney, Naema Ahmed and John Muyskens
Books

Freedom (2024)

Timothy Snyder
Quotations

Commencement Speeches

Nine Life Lessons

Tim Minchin -- Australian writer, performer, composer, film maker and teacher.
Quotations

Talks

Letter From a Birmingham Jail

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Commencement Speeches

Be the Truth

Oprah Winfrey
Quotations

Talks

MacBeth’s final soliloquy

Sir Ian McKellen
Photography

Neighborly Maine

Commencement Speeches

We All Breathe the Same Air

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Quotations

Quotations

Quotations

"No more war!"

Photography

Athens at night

Articles

Sudan marks grim anniversary of civil war

Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
Talks

"Put the water back in the river!"

Bruce Shillingsworth, aboriginal activist
Articles

Democracy needs champions

Heather Cox Richardson
Talks

News we can trust

The Center for Humane Technology
Quotations

Books

The Wind in the Willows (1908)

Kenneth Grahame
Commencement Speeches

Be True to Yourself

Michelle Obama
Commencement Speeches

Be Your Own Story

Toni Morrison
Commencement Speeches

What We Wish to Become

Professor E. O. Wilson of Harvard University - and the world of ants...
Books

The Little Prince (1943)

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Commencement Speeches

A Left-handed Commencement Address

Ursula K LeGuin
Photography

Shadong, China

Articles

Each of us

Tony Balis
Photography

Ixil, Guatemala

Talks

Literate tales of passion

Isabel Allende
Talks

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Jimmy Stewart
Books

Charlotte's Web (1952)

E. B. White
Articles

The Big Vote

Amy Davidson Sorkin
Commencement Speeches

Real Freedom?

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008, American author and professor
Articles

The illusion of a trillion trees

Alexandra Heal, The Financial Times
Quotations

Quotations

Books

The Overstory (2018)

Richard Powers
Quotations

Books

Sapiens (2011)

Yuval Noah Harari
Books

The Abstract Wild (1996)

Jack Turner
Quotations

Commencement Speeches

The Effect You Have On Others

Jim Carrey
Books

Vesper Flights (2020)

Helen Macdonald
Quotations

Talks

We are alive for a reason.

Claire Dubuois
Talks

If your dreams do not scare you...

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Commencement Speeches

Make Good Art

Neil Gaiman, award-winning author and graphic novelist.
Books

Building the Earth (1965)

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin