“We Belong Together”

The deepest crises in American society are not merely political, economic, cultural, or racial; they are crises of moral imagination. As a nation, we have forgotten how to imagine one another as equally dignified human beings, capable of building a common democratic future.

We have underestimated the moral significance of our shared humanity and neglected the civic virtues that make democratic life possible: mutual respect, tolerance, responsibility, compassion, love, and solidarity.

No society can flourish when it closes its eyes to the possibility of living together and ignores the truth that our futures are bound to one another. Human flourishing is never an individual project; it is a collective. We do not simply live alongside one another; we belong together.