If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw,…

If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth & claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

Sourced, Cloud Atlas (2004)

“The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing”, p. 528.

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