“It's easy for me to understand that I contain multitudes, but rather than understanding that of other people, too often I imagine them as merely sick or merely poor or merely 'them' to some 'us' that includes me.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Community, Meaning, humanity
“We often associate reading and writing with humanness, but there are many people who can't read or write, and often, they're marginalized people, the people whose humanity most needs to be acknowledged.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Community, Meaning, humanity
“I believe that we confer personhood upon each other through empathy and compassion and trust.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Community, Meaning, humanity
“I believe that when we acknowledge each other's consciousness and complexity, we lead better lives and feel less alone in our grief and our joy.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Community, Meaning, humanity
“I believe that we're human because we believe in each other's humanness, and because we can listen, and we can work together to alleviate each other's suffering. And in that sense, I guess being human is both something that we are and something we must always aspire to be.”— John Green, youtube.comTagged: Community, Meaning