Final word to the ones to come...

We are waiting for you. A great Mission rests on your shoulders. I know you did not choose to be born under this shadow of a collapsed Earth, at a time of unrest. Yet history has selected you all the same. Remember that without our present faith in your future coming, civilization will slide into The Madness of scorched-earth consumerism. I do not know how long we must wait for you. We shall prepare for you to emerge like lightning. You're closer than any previous generation of humanity has ever been to achieving people's democracy. And not just in my country or your country but in every country. A people's democracy on a planetary scale is within your reach. That is, if you have the courage, creativity and tenacity to seize it. We are finding our courage on a collective species-wide level. Soon the people will learn to act in a coordinated uprising of 7 billion. Against the backdrop of an increasingly tumultuous world, to be a partisan is to be on the side of the angry, indebted and hungry. It is to use any weapon you have at hand - art if you are an activist, code if you are a hacktivist, words if you are a poet or prayer if you are a theurgist - to turn the tide in favor of those who seek a new world order. Be opportunistic. Help when you can. "Strike weakness, avoid strength, be patient" it does not matter if others don't know the work you've done. Your deeds will live forever in our Collective Victory. 

- Micah White, The end of protest, a new playbook for Revolution, 2016 

International organizations have not kept pace with global challenges. The UN, World Bank and other multi-lateral institutions were set up to deal with post-WWII crises. Today the world if far smaller, crowded with 4.5 billion more people than 60 years ago, and much more connected, with the rapid rise in flows of information, people, goods, and services across borders. We are all more affected than ever by what happens elsewhere. Globalization has accelerated at a revolutionary pace while global institutions have evolved at an evolutionary speed, leading to a widening governance divide between global problems and global solutions. Ossified institutions are losing the battle to tackle modern concerns that transcend national boundaries, such as financial crises, cyber crime, pandemics, migration, and the effects of global warming. 

-Professor of Globalization and Development at Oxford University, Ian Goldin  book: Divided Nations-Why global governance is failing, and what we can do about it.

"The responsibility for change, therefore, lies with us. 

We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to 

close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical. 

This means fighting off the idea-assassins who rush forward

 to kill any new suggestions on grounds of its impracticality, while 

defending whatever exists now as practical, no matter how absurd, 

oppressive or unworkable it may be.... we should not expect today's nominal leaders - presidents and politicians, senators and central committee members 

[written well before the downfall of communism] -- 

to challenge the very institutions that, no matter how obsolete, give them prestige, 

money, and the illusion, if not the reality, of power."

-Alvin Toffler The Third Wave, 1980

The throes of the contemporary world are those of a birth. And what is being born with such great pain is a universal society. What characterizes the events we witness, what distinguishes them from all preceding events back to the origins of history is their global character. 

-Etienne Gilson

The leaders are the laggards.  The disease of power seems to confuse and befuddle them.  Never is the chancelleries of the world or in the halls of the United Nations is the real problem raised.  Never do they state the bold truth that the next great advance in the evolution of civilization cannot take place until war is abolished.  they increase preparedness by alliance, by feverish activity in developing deadlier weapons. We are told we must go on at present some say for 50 years or more. 

 -General Douglas MacArthur, WWII Supreme Allied Commander

26 Jan 1955 NY Times p. 1 

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war 

and through politics. We have reached the point of regarding each other only as 

members of a people either allied with or against us and our approach-prejudice, 

sympathy or antipathy-are all conditioned by that. Now we must rediscover the 

fact that we-all together-are human beings. Now let us set our hopes on the 

spirit’s bringing people and nations back together

- Albert Schweitzer Nobel    Peace Prize Laureate

There is no question there will be world government this century. The questions

are will it come about by cataclysm, drift or rational design and will it be 

totalitarian, benign or participatory democratic. The probabilities being in that 

order”.

- Saul Mendlovitz, Director World Order Models Project, UNESCO Peace 

Education Award 1991. Former president, World Policy Institute, New York.

The new world order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world

democracy, peace and prosperity for all.

-Nelson Mandela

In the next century (now), nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will

recognize a single global authority and realize national sovereignty wasn’t such a 

great deal after all.

-Strobe Talbott   Deputy Secretary of State under Bill Clinton

More than ever, we need a new international order that draws on the experience and results achieved in these years by the United Nations. It would be able to provide solutions to the problems of today... based on the dignity of human beings, an integrated development of society, solidarity between rich and poor nations, and on the sharing of resources and the extraordinary results of scientific and technological progress.

-Pope John Paul II

The better mind of the world desires today not absolutely independent States warring one against another, but a federation of friendly, inter-dependent States

- Mohandas Gandhi

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we do not come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations because there will be no humanity. 

-Isaac Asimov  I, Asimov 

We have entered a period of human history in which the problems we face-and climate change is but one-are so massive and complex that no country, no matter how powerful, can solve them alone.  Yet we continue to allow our attachment to sovereignty to get in the way of meaningful collective action….learning to think and behave as citizens of the world, not just of our own nation-states,  is what we must all do if we’re to avoid environmental havoc…[we need] to campaign for global co-operation on global issues…it is in every nation’s long-term interests to do so.  After all, what good is sovereignty if you can’t breathe? I ask myself: is any country’s  sovereignty, including Canada’s, more important than the welfare of future generations?

-John Macfarlane Editor of The Walrus 

There is no solution for civilization or even the human race, other than the creation of world government.

– Einstein

For humanity is already a single, whole  and planetary we appeal as human beings to human beings; remember your humanity and forget the rest.

–Einstein on his death bed.

A 'sophisticated' person might well comment: We have been working toward the same goal by means of small, patient steps. But I, the so-called 'idealist', regard this as a fatal illusion. There is not any gradual way to secure peace, but through a resolute and creative act".

-Excerpts taken from Einstein on Peace, 1963

There is no first step to world government; world government is the first step.

-Emery Reves, The Anatomy of Peace, 1945

We can no longer permit ourselves to be led by statesmen who use us as pawns in the game of national interests.  WE wish to be led by those who represent us directly; we, the individuals of the human community.

-Gary Davis

Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed with a wideness of powers, structure and means of the same proportions; that is, of public authorities which are in a position to operate in an effective manner on a world-wide basis.  The moral order itself, therefore, demands that such a form of public authority be established. 

-Pope John XXIII  1963 Pacem in Terris "The Insufficiency of Modern States to Ensure the Universal Common Good" 

Humanity is transiting into a new kind of civilization, a global civilization.  We are really too close to the event to realize its significance.  

-Indian ambassador to UN Karen Singh 1989.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

- Bertrand Russell

The classical scope of responsibility-to one's self, to one's family, to one's community and nation-must be broadened. This responsibility in short, must be universal in concept and planetary in scope.

-former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau (commencement address at Duke University North Carolina, 1974)

$1.74 Trillion in world military expenditures (SIPRI)..."fills the coffers of the rich whilst it fills the coffins of the poor".

-Duncan Graham, Purple Dawn Sept. 1990

The real terrorists are national leaders, the real hostages are all of us.

-Bishop Thomas  Gumbleton 1978

The world needs leadership that is proactive, not simply reactive, that is inspired, not simply functional, that looks to the longer term and future generations for whom the present is held in trust.  It needs leaders made strong by vision, sustained by ethics and revealed by political courage that looks beyond the next election.

-Our Global Neighborhood: The Report of the Commission on Global Governance (1st ed.)

World government is not only possible, it is inevitable; and when it comes it will all appeal to patriotism in its truest, in its only sense, the patriotism of [those] who love their national heritages so deeply that they wish to preserve them in safety for the common good.

-Sir Peter Ustinov