The challenges of the 21st century will stretch our collective capacity for innovation like never before.
But in the end, a healthy democracy depends on a collective capacity to hash things out.
"The conflict produces more victims faster than our collective capacity to help," said Georgieva.
To study the history of the black freedom movement is to be astonished by its collective capacity for forbearance.
But universal education also has a payoff for the entire nation because it lifts our collective capacity as a nation.
"We call upon all people to act in their individual and collective capacity to protest such injustice and inhumanity".
Together, we must strengthen our collective capacity to establish security where order has broken down, and to support those who seek a just and lasting peace.
The attacks of 9/11 were unique in testing our collective capacity for horror and grief, and these families are at psychological ground zero.
Last week, the state comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli, said he would pursue possible divestment regarding Sudan, saying that "the genocide in Darfur is a challenge to our collective capacity to do good".
To do this, we have to consolidate the progress we have already made, and vigorously invest in our collective capacity to contain and wipe out the disease wherever it may linger.
Whether it takes place in Tunis or Cairo, Caracas or Port-au-Prince, Athens or London, to ground political action in the will of the people is to reassert a collective capacity for deliberate and revolutionary transformation.
