By Wade Lee Hudson

This thought experiment thinks through the consequences of society’s holistic and systemic transformation into a compassionate community dedicated to serving humanity, the environment, and life itself, while keeping healthy traditions. If the vast majority of the human family addresses the whole person and the whole society with this commitment, would you want to see it realized?

This scenario is not a blueprint. We’ll never realize it fully. The hope is to offer a path, trusting that if we fight for what’s right, the world will be better for it.

Imagine a world where most people are united…

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The Compassionate Humanity Community affirms:

Mission

We work to relieve and prevent suffering and make society more just, compassionate, and egalitarian — as we work on our self-development and how we relate with others as a model for the world we seek.

Core Principles

Respect for Equality

Everyone is created equal, with equal human rights and equal, infinite value. All citizens should be equal under the law. Everyone should treat others with dignity. No one should disrespect or control others due to one of their specific identities, such as race or gender.

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Goals

Cultivate justice and compassion

Assure everyone can meet their basic needs and participate fully in society

Oppose discrimination based on arbitrary traits like skin color

Strengthen unions, worker-controlled cooperatives, bottom-up hierarchies, and democratic equality throughout society

Organize peer-to-peer mutual support 

Set aside the desire to dominate and exploit others for personal gain

Care for yourself so you can better serve others

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The Moral Humanity Movement

Scattered pockets of positive change are transforming society into a compassionate community. Seeds are being planted.

The enrichment of cultures creates a moral foundation for systemic improvements in our major social institutions.

These structural improvements nurture personal and spiritual growth rooted in mutual support that helps individuals undo divisive, selfish, competitive, domineering socialization and form partnerships.

Increased ability to cooperate enhances the emergence of a sustained, massive, united, nonviolent, grassroots moral humanity movement

Mutually reinforcing nonviolent efforts are based on Gandhi’s principle: “Be the change you seek.”

Countless individuals and organizations contribute to the moral humanity movement — including those who don’t yet identify as members. The challenge is to deepen, strengthen, expand, connect, and unify these innovations. This manifesto moves in this direction.

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By Wade Lee Hudson

NOTE: This manifesto is a work in progress. Please review and use the form below to comment.

Scattered pockets of positive change transform society into a compassionate community. Seeds are planted. Awareness of basic realities increases. Good people relieve others’ suffering — and correct the root causes of preventable suffering. Efforts to improve public policy persist. The moral humanity movement unites these fragments and reverses humanity’s downward spiral.

Enrichment of our shared culture creates a moral foundation for systemic improvements in our major social institutions.

These structural improvements nurture personal and spiritual growth rooted in mutual support that helps individuals undo divisive, selfish, competitive, domineering socialization and form partnerships.

Increased ability to cooperate enhances emergence of a sustained, massive, united, nonviolent, grassroots moral humanity movement that persuades Washington to respect the people's will while respecting minority rights.

Mutually reinforcing nonviolent efforts are based on Gandhi’s principle: “Be the change you seek.” They liberate inherited instincts that modern societies suppress. They strengthen positive capabilities and correct weaknesses. They affirm the equal value of every individual and awaken moral commitment to compassionate action. They set aside self-centered domination and blind submission.

Countless individuals and organizations contribute to the moral humanity movement — including those who don’t yet identify as members. The challenge is to deepen, strengthen, expand, connect, and unify these innovations. This manifesto moves in this direction.

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Political organizations don’t encourage members to engage in self-reform to undo divisive social conditioning, including the desire to dominate and the willingness to submit. And personal- and spiritual-reform organizations don’t nurture political action to help change oppressive public policies. If these two communities made simple shifts in their approach, they could come together and build an independent social movement powerful enough to persuade Washington to respect the will of the people, transform social structures throughout society, and support compassionate personal growth.

The first step is to agree on a shared worldview rooted in compassion.

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