Love: The Last Revolution
by Kim Sorrelle
Distinguished delegates, esteemed leaders, brothers and sisters of this world,
I have stood where the earth shook and walls crumbled.
I have breathed the smoke that choked the sky and watched waters claim lives.
I pulled life from the rubble in Haiti while the ground still quaked.
I fed first responders in the suffocating ash of New York after 9/11.
I carried medical supplies into Venezuela after floods swept away Tens of thousands.
I have seen devastation beyond imagination-
and resilience stronger than steel.
And what these experiences have taught me is this:
The greatest strength of a leader is not power or profit; it is love.
Today we gather at the United Nations-the one place on Earth built to turn conflict into dialogue, division into cooperation, and suffering into shared responsibility.
Together, we hold the pen that will write the next chapter of history.
The question before us is simple: what ink will we use?
If our ink is fear, our words will divide.
If our ink is greed, our words will exploit.
If our ink is pride, our words will wound.
But if our ink is love-love that restores dignity, protects the vulnerable, and sees every person as family-then our words will heal, our policies will unite, and our actions will endure.
Somewhere along the way, we lost sight of love as a principle of governance.
We made love small.
We made it sentimental.
We treated it like a candle-fragile, flickering-
When in truth it has always been the sun: luminous, limitless, and lasting.
The world does not need more pride.
The world does not need more greed.
The world does not need more fear.
What the world needs-what the Sustainable Development Goals themselves require-is a revolution. And that revolution is love.
I do not mean conditional love.
I do not mean convenient love.
I do not mean calculated love.
Real love does not ask "What do you believe?" before it feeds you.
Real love does not ask "Where are you from?" before it takes you in.
Real love does not ask "Whose side are you on?" before it binds your wounds.
Borders may define our nations, but they need not define our compassion.
Walls may protect our security, but they cannot protect our conscience.
Weapons may secure our power, but they cannot secure our peace.
We have tried pride-and it gave us war.
We have tried greed, and it gave us poverty.
We have tried fear-and it gave us division.
Now, let us try love.
Let us craft policies that protect the powerless before the powerful.
Write laws with love as the ink.
Feed the hungry-starve the hate.
Act as if every decision touches your own family-because it does.
When love leads, justice follows.
When love leads, peace is not a negotiation-it is a way of life.
When love leads, nations rise, children thrive, and the world heals.
I do not stand here to dream.
I stand here to dare.
And I dare every leader in this room- to govern with love.
To legislate with love.
To negotiate with love.
To disagree with love.
To live-and if necessary, to sacrifice-for love.
Because power fades.
Empires fall.
Armies crumble.
Fortunes vanish like mist at dawn.
But love never fails.
Love never fails beyond borders.
Love never fails beyond politics.
Love never fails beyond time.
It is the one measure by which your leadership will be remembered.
Distinguished delegates, the pen is in our hands.
The page is blank.
And history is watching.
If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?
If not love, then nothing.
This is the last revolution the world will ever need.
And that revolution is love.
Thank you.
