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One Love For All

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Lo ve Has No Lab els "We are all human. It's time to embrace diversity. Let's put aside labels in the name of love." Maybe you’ve seen the images? A white square superimposed over a picture of your friend, mom or coworker, an NFL quarterback, celebrity or news anchor. Inside the box, this phrase: “love has no labels.” This campaign—though “campaign” can’t really capture its essence—is spreading, and fast. The motto is simple, as the most powerful revolutionary thoughts tend to be: “Before anything else, we are human. One love for all.” Personally, I cannot help but think of the opening to Pride & Prejudice, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that…” It seems painfully simple to say that we are human. Obviously, we humans are human. But as Austen goes on to muse about a man wanting a wife, Love Has No Labels turns a microscope on our assumptions. If we are all human, why don’t we act like it? Can We All Just Be Human ? You are accepting of other people, righ