The bonds between us matter more than our numbers. Pay attention to the quality of your connections and to strengthening them.

Power is born from building and cultivating these bonds, not from the number of our relationships. Attend to the force contained in your friendships more than to the number of your friends, and strengthen it.

For social unity too, we need continually to strengthen our social bonds with one another. The power of our popular unity comes from the quality of these connections.

Let us stand behind one another. Let us look after one another. Let us give new meaning to the idea of being compatriots by recognising the importance of these bonds. Begin today.

Grace Lee Boggs, the contemporary American writer and philosopher, is quoted here as writing:
“We never understand as we should the value of our small acts—acts that can have an important effect on the apparently invisible architecture of our relationships and connections with others. In this deeply interconnected world, the central issue is always the important and vital connections between human beings, not large masses of people.”

Let us recreate our bonds and begin a new era of unity and solidarity in order to create hope and drive despotism and darkness out of Iran.

Aydin Areta