Below is one of my favorite quotes that keeps returning to my mind and one that I believe we all should take note of and keep in mind in this time of ours.
According to WikiQuote, it is by Anglican divine and metaphysical poet, John Donne (1572–1631), and is from his Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), "Meditation 17." You can read more about Donne himself here.
I give the sexist language as Donnne wrote it. Please pardon him. He was a man of his time in that regard. I still believe the thought here counts.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
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