The Call of the Brave and Extraordinary
A Sacred Invitation to Co-Create the Future
by Rabbi Dr. Paul Zeitz, Co-Founder, #unifyUSA
“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”
— Leviticus 25:10
In every sacred tradition, there comes a time when the veil lifts—when the truth becomes too loud to ignore. And then comes the greater test: Will we respond with courage? Or will we turn away?
This is that time.
We are living in an age of convergence and collapse—where the fabric of democracy frays, trust dissolves, and fear threatens to harden our hearts. Project 2025 and other forces of authoritarianism are organizing to dismantle the very foundations of our Constitution.
But I come to you not with despair—I come with fire, with faith, and with an invitation.
This is not just a political moment. This is a sacred, interspiritual awakening.
Across scripture, across continents, across generations, the call is the same:
Rise. Proclaim liberty. Repair what is broken. Restore what is sacred.
The Hebrew prophets cried out for Jubilee justice.
The Qur’an commands us to “stand firmly for justice, as witnesses to God.”
The Bhagavad Gita reminds us to act with selfless courage.
Jesus declared that the peacemakers “shall be called children of God.”
And Indigenous wisdom teaches us to care for the seventh generation yet unborn.
Each tradition, one voice:
This world is ours to heal. This democracy is ours to redeem. This future is ours to co-create.
#unifyUSA is not just a movement. It is a moral uprising. A return to the soul of democracy. We are ordinary people rising to do extraordinary things.
We are calling for Citizens’ Assemblies across this nation—spaces of radical listening and collective truth-telling, where people of every background can design a government that works for all of us.
This is our Jubilee moment—to release, reset, restore, and refresh.
And in this sacred hour, another voice rises to meet us:
“That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
— President Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Lincoln’s words are more than history.
They are prophecy.
And now—we are the ones being summoned to fulfill it.
Lincoln saw the cost of democracy’s survival. He knew that liberty is not inherited—it is reinvented, by every generation that dares to believe in the promise of the people.
And now that task is ours.
We are the midwives of a new birth of freedom.
We are the authors of a renewed Constitution—of, by, and for all of the people.
So I ask you:
Will you be brave with me?
Will you be extraordinary with me?
Will you rise—not in anger, but in love-fueled responsibility—to refresh the foundations of our shared future?
Let us proclaim liberty again—not as a memory, but as our shared mandate.
Let us remember who we are, and who we are becoming.
Let us rise—not someday, but now.
Because the future is calling.
And we are the answer.
Dr. Paul Zeitz is the Co-Founder of #unifyUSA, an inter-partisan citizens' movement dedicated to Hit Refresh the U.S. Constitution through Citizens’ Assemblies and author of Hit Refresh on the U.S. Constitution: A Revolutionary Roadmap for Fulfilling on the Promise of Democracy and Revolutionary Optimism: 7 Steps for Living as a Love-Centered Activist.