Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can." - Linda Ellerbee Life will always give you reasons not to, so try to laugh anyway; it's one of our most underrated (and human) forms of resilience! 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Whenever I nodded along in ignorance, I lost an opportunity, betrayed the wonder in me by privileging the appearance of knowing over the work of finding out." - Ta-Nehisi Coates Every unasked question is a small surrender of curiosity. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth." - William Faulkner 010
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em." - Shel Silverstein The present moment is the only place in time where life can actually be lived. Pause and ask yourself: am I showing up with attention and intention? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find that you are not alone." - Richard Wright Your honesty could be exactly what someone else needs to hear to feel less isolated in their own struggle. 001
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"The more grateful I am, the more beauty I see." - Mary Davis What's something small and overlooked in your life that deserves a second, more appreciative look? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Dr. Lawrence Brown speaking at Urban Reads, part of the Baltimore Book Festival. He’s launching a comic book series on racism and themes in The Black Butterfly, as a way to educate the next generation! Brown spoke at the 2017 AEU Assembly in Baltimore. 010
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026BES is at the Baltimore Book Festival! BaltimoreBookFestival.com Featuring books from the Humanist Press @americanhumanist.bsky.social 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Come see us at the #BookFestival in Baltimore till 8:00 p.m. and tomorrow from 9:00 to 6:00 p.m. 011
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring" - George Santayana Instead of clinging to the good times, let yourself be open to moving through life's difficulties with curiosity. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Come see us at the Baltimore Book Festival this weekend. We will be close to the 32nd Street stage 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible." - Maya Angelou Bias weighs heaviest when it goes unexamined. What would it look like to put down an assumption you've been carrying? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 14/09/2026"When you dance to your own rhythm, people may not understand you; they may even hate you. But mostly they'll wish they had the courage to do the same." - Stevie Nicks Refusing to shrink who you are makes the world a little safer for everyone else to do the same 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 12/09/2026"When the rights of any group, no matter how small, no matter how marginal, are violated, your liberty, your freedom is put at risk. Let there never be a day when we cast about in horror and have to ask the question, 'How did it ever come to this?'" - Thomas Childers 010
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world." - John Muir We are not separate from the rest of the world - we are woven into it. Every choice, every action, every act of care has a ripple effect. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Shout out to the new film by #HumanistsUK starring Janet Ellis! #AllWeHaveIsEachOther is a reflection on making sense of the world through reason and evidence, finding meaning in the one life we have, living compassionately, and finding community. Watch it today! humanists.uk/janetellisfi...humanists.ukAll we have is each other | film with Janet Ellis, Humanists UK PresidentAll we have is each other is our brand new film starring our President Janet Ellis, exploring the values that shape her humanist outlook: making sense of the world through reason and evidence, finding... 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King, Jr. As humanists, we know that the work of building a more just and dignified world belongs to all of us. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." - Bertrand Russell Curiosity doesn't owe a return on investment or guarantee of productivity - wonder and joy are reason enough. 010
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken." - bell hooks What would it take to tend your flame a little more deliberately? 010
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 25/08/2026"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed. Never throw out anyone." - Audrey Hepburn Believing in someone's capacity to change is one of the most radical and humanist acts available to us. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 20/08/2026"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person." - Walt Whitman Humanism asks us to close the gap between ourselves and others. Who are you being called to show up for more fully? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 18/08/2026"Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It's you who can change the world." - Malala Yousafzai The change we need has always lived in ordinary people who didn't wait for someone more qualified, more courageous, or more ready to step up. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 14/08/2026"Look at another person and understand no matter how much you disagree with them...if you look, you will find good in them." - Sonia Sotomayor Who are you ready to see more fully? 011
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things." - Nate Berkus Stay curious about your own potential by regularly putting it to the test. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Hope does not deny the evil, but it is a response to it." - Jane Goodall Humanism asks us to see the world as it is - and work toward the world as it could be. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We supported the July giving love bash which got postponed to August 8th due to weather but it was a great event 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects." - Robert M. Hutchins A mind on fire is a mind alive. When did something last genuinely challenge the way you think? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 05/08/2026"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." - Rachel Carson The natural world is one of our most reliable sources of solace and resilience. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan Humanism has never been a spectator game. What have you been watching from the sidelines that's ready for your full participation? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Remembering the Hamburg Massacre in South Carolina, July 1876 - theconversation.com/how-an-1876-... - What we have learned 150 years later? #Humanismtheconversation.comHow an 1876 massacre of Black men in South Carolina turned racial terror into political powerThe men responsible for the bloodshed 150 years ago were never prosecuted; instead, they rose to South Carolina’s highest offices. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves." - Alison Malee Who are you in a position to believe in today? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 29/07/2026"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience." - Paulo Coelho A life fully lived requires a willingness to step into the unknown. Wisdom earned > wisdom borrowed. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 27/07/2026"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough." - Franklin D. Roosevelt As humanists, we emphatically reject the idea that compassion and strength are in tension. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 27/07/2026"The goal is not to be perfect - it is to be whole." - Jane Fonda A fully embodied life includes the contradictions, the failures, and the unfinished edges. What part(s) of yourself have you been trying to smooth over that you could be integrating? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 22/07/2026"When you look for love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation." - Neil deGrasse Tyson 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 20/07/2026"The greatest souvenir of all is a broader perspective." - Rick Steves You don't have to go far to come back changed. What experience - near or far - has most expanded the way you see the world? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut Care isn't meant to be saved for the deserving or the convenient. Instead, we love who's there. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 15/07/2026"Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action." - Anna Lappe You don't need a perfect plan or reason to feel hopeful - you just need to stay in motion. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 13/07/2026"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela Humanists have always understood that none of us are free until all of us are free. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 10/07/2026"The thing we must do intensely is be human together. People are more important than things." - Frank Herbert In a world designed to keep us busy and distracted, choosing presence is a radical act. Who deserves more of yours? 010
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 08/07/2026"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller A life well lived isn't built from grand moments, but the thousands of ordinary ones approached with intention. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 06/07/2026"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand." - Jose Ortega y Gasset What's something that still genuinely surprises or puzzles you that deserves more of your curiosity? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 03/07/2026"We have it in our power to begin the world over again" - Thomas Paine On the eve of America's 250th birthday, a reminder from one of our most humanist founders: our capacity to create a fairer, more compassionate world is always within grasp. 010
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"Real change lies within all of us. It is in the choices we make every day. It's in how we talk, who we hire, and what we permit others to say in our presence." - Megan Rapinoe What do your choices say about what you stand for? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 26/06/2026"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde Humanism asks us to show up for our lives, not just move through them. What would it look like to be a little more present in your own story? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 24/06/2026"Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread." - Judith Butler The ability to imagine a better, truer future for ourselves isn't wishful thinking - it's a skill that sustains us through the hardest seasons. 020
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"Fighting for change makes you stronger." - Leslie Feinberg Standing up for something bigger than yourself is one of the most clarifying things a person can do. How have your struggles made you more capable? 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 12/06/2026"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis As humanists, we believe in the human capacity - and responsibility - to reshape the conditions of our lives. 000
Baltimore Ethical Society - bmorethical @bmorethical.bsky.social · 10/06/2026"The system is not designed to protect us, but we will protect ourselves." - Sylvia Rivera Where institutions fail, communities rise to the moment. Who are you showing up for today 000
