Engaging the Strength of the Human Community

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You Can Change the World!

Come see how– one global citizen at a time. Your involvement and contribution of talent, time or financial resources to support a One World club will help us all make a difference.

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We hope that you will save the date and join us for our One World Chapter Meeting on Thursday, January 19th at 7;00 p.m. Location:One World (new office!)163 North Main Street, Suite 203; Port Chester, NY. 10573 RSVP danarutson@yahoo.com; 914/621-6252

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Welcome to One World

We are One World, an educational foundation that provides learning opportunities designed to nurture our common humanity with the belief that doing so will lead to an increased awareness of the need for improved global cooperation and governance. We offer a variety of learning opportunities that include Study Circles, One World Clubs for schools and communities, book groups, and a Speaker Series.

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  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.image description Margaret Mead

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.image description John Cogley-Commonweal

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation: and this means we must develop a world perspective.image description Dr. Martin Luther King (1929-68)

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …The defining challenge of the 21st Century will be to face the reality that humanity faces a common fate on a crowded planet. That common fate will require new forms of global cooperation, a fundamental point of blinding simplicity that many world leaders have yet to understand or embrace. Jeffrey Sachs

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …To welcome another person with love and affection is the highest religion. To find God in your own heart is to experience the highest religious truth. The ability to carry that awareness with you, seeing the same divinity in others, brings it into your daily life.image description unknown author

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …I am inferior of any whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart — the best brain.image Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-99), American Politician, Lecturer

  • What a One Worlder might say…

    As man advances in civilization… there is only an artificial barrier
    to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.     Charles Darwin

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …We are all citizens of the world.  The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …Cosmopolitanism, then, is universalistic. It believes that every human being matters, and that we have shared obligations to care for one another. But what distinguishes it from other forms of universalist philosophy is that it also accepts a wide range of legitimate human diversity. That respect for diversity comes from something that also goes back to Diogenes, tolerance for other people’s choices of how to live and humility about what we ourselves know. Anthony Kwame Appiah, contemporary moral philosopher, lecture at Fordham University Law School, September 2006

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …The only salvation for civilization and the human race lies in the creation of world government. As long as sovereign states continue to have armaments and armament secrets, new world wars will be inevitable. Albert Einstein, interview, October 1945

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …the whole of human history shows that a cooperative spirit is not only natural to men, but more deeply rooted than any self-seeking tendencies. If this were not so we should not see the growth of integration and organization of his communities which the centuries and the millennia plainly exhibits. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (2nd ed., 1875, pp. 187-8)

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    … The sea’s vast depths lie open to the fish; Where’er the breezes blow the bird may roam; So to the brave man every land’s a home. (Omne solum forti patria est, ut piscibus aequor, Ut volucri, vacuo quicquid in orbe patet.) Ovid, Fasti. Bk. I, l. 493.

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …The whole world is a man’s birthplace. Statius, Thebais. Bk. viii, l. 320.

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …You are a citizen of the world and a part of it, not one of the subordinate parts (like domestic animals) but one of the foremost: for you are capable of understanding the divine administration and of reasoning out what follows from it. What is the profession of a citizen? To treat nothing as a purely private interest and to deliberate about nothing as though one were detached (from the world as a whole), but as the hand or the foot, if they had reason and the capacity to attend to the world’s (natural) constitution would never exercise impulse or desire except by reference to the whole.image description Epictetus, The Manual, (2.10.3-4)

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …I am not an Athenian nor a Greek but a citizen of the world. image description Socrates (per Plutarch, Of Banishment, 600.)

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world. image description Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Goodness

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    … As man advances in civilization, there is only an artificial barrier
    to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.image description     Charles Darwin

  • What a One World Thinker Might Say: Then and Now

    …My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.image description Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Pt. ii, ch. v.

Study Circles

Come join our conversation at a One World Study Circle, as we inspire and challenge each other to create a new human ethos one global citizen at a time. "Study” refers to the articles and readings we provide in advance, which tap our thinking and prompt discussion during the course of this complimentary five-session study series.

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One World Club

Find out what our current clubs are doing or become a founding member of a One World Club in your elementary, middle or high school, university or community. Be a leader – create leaders – to inspire thought and action to engage the strength of our human community!

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Speaker Series

One World Pioneer nights provide one of the many variety of forums we offer as a chance to further explore a One World relevant topic through the knowledge and experience shared by guest speakers. Hosted in a private home or public venue, we welcome speaker and topic recommendations.

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