In the mist of global crisis such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be dismissed as a "soft issue" or a luxury to be addressed after urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, towards the needs of people who are suffereing.
Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.
~Bo Lozoff
