I should have known that jms would have written the right words to help us through this time:

Here, gathered together in common cause, we agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule:
That we must be kind to one another
Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each voice lost diminishes us.
We are the voice of the Universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future.
We are one.

https://greysector.wordpress.com/2015/04/17/the-declaration-a-babylon-5-wedding-reading/