Tim Shriver - The Call to Unite: Voices of Hope and Awakening

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Foreword copyright 2021 by Timothy Shriver

Epilogue copyright 2021 by Maria Shriver

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library of congress cataloging-in-publication data

Names: Shriver, Timothy, editor. | Rosshirt, Tom, editor.

Title: The call to unite : voices of hope and awakening / edited by Tim Shriver and Tom Rosshirt.

Description: New York : Viking, 2021.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020043049 (print) | LCCN 2020043050 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593298237 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593298244 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Resilience (Personality trait) | Persistence. | Affirmations. | Conduct of life.

Classification: LCC BF698.35.R47 C364 2021 (print) | LCC BF698.35.R47 (ebook) | DDC 158dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043049

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020043050

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To the prophets and dreamers dismissed as traitors for seeing unity in humanity

I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they dont know each other, and they dont know each other because they dont communicate with each other, and they dont communicate with each other because they are separated from each other.

Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., in a speech delivered at Cornell College on October 15, 1962

Lets invite the world to unite!

Meisha Lerato Robinson, cofounder, UNITE