I first met Rick at the Interfaith Center of New York in the office of Diane Williams, who was organizing a program at the United Nations celebrating “A Season for Nonviolence” between the dates of the assassinations of Mahatma Gandhi (Jan. 30) and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4). I got to know Rick as a student of Rabbi Michael Lerner and a teacher of nonviolent communication. I was surprised to hear in 1998 that he was starting an organization called “We, The World.” Really? This lone fellow with a dream is calling his nonprofit “We, The World”?