"I think about how what drew us together that night was a shared humanity, a spark of something we recognized and respected in one another despite the fact that we were meant to be adversaries," she said.
By gathering, by occupying, they are asserting a shared humanity against atomizing development and the globalized shopping mall.
Though we have a "shared humanity" our stories are different.
You'll recognize a shared atmosphere.
I can only hope for a day when Muslims and Jews recognize their shared humanity and defend the rights of all people, regardless of faith.
My personal response to the rise of extremism -- of all types -- across Europe is to continue to try and build bridges of understanding between different religious and non-religious communities; to find a way for each person to recognize our shared humanity, as first and beyond the other labels we take on and are given.
Flash finds himself looking to Canary for solace, both of them pushing aside the past to recognize their shared humanity, their interdependence.
People of diverse faiths and cultures are encouraged to remember our common origins, to respect our cultural differences, and to recognize our shared humanity.
Over time, as hosts and guests rub shoulders day in and day out, and as a web of cross-cultural relationships is formed, it becomes easier for both sides to recognize their shared humanity and more difficult to sustain suspicions grounded in isolation and ignorance.
These injustices are all the result of people being unable to do what Karli Smith is teaching her fourth graders to do--to recognize our shared humanity, to overcome automatic assumptions that place false limitations on people who are different than us.
The rise of anti-colonial political theory, however, required more than a universalistic ethic that recognized the shared humanity of all people.
