This week, our souls needed to be reminded of what idealism feels like and what hope sounds like. So, we brought in some of the most dynamic voices of our time and asked one simple question: “What’s the world you’re fighting for?”

Here are some of their answers:

“I’m fighting for a world where people of color don’t need to work twice as hard to be seen as less than equal. I’m fighting for a world where we all have a future that’ll not be filled with floods, hurricanes and fires. I’m fighting for a world where we can heal from white supremacy and colonialism.” — Althea Mitchell, member of The Radical Monarchs

“So a world that I’m fighting for is for a world that has systemic and interpersonal solidarity in action. Growing up in San Diego, California I didn’t see myself reflected in the curriculum. In middle school moving to Ohio, I didn’t see myself reflected in the curriculum. Moving to Indianapolis, when I first taught, I didn’t see myself in the curriculum. And then when I moved to Boston to go to grad school at Harvard, that’s the first time I saw myself in the curriculum taking an ethnic studies graduate course taught by Dr. Christina Villarreal. She exposed me to cross coalitional movements. So today I’m fighting for our voice being unapologetically in the curriculum, being present. And I want to make sure that we’re not omitted from the conversation, because when we’re omitted from the conversation, we are still fighting the same battles of lack of representation, of lack of resource s or a lack of radical imagination as templates for us to see ourselves as the leaders we were born to be.” — Tony DelaRosa, Filipinx activist, poet and manager of teacher leadership development of Teach For America in Miami

“The world I see right now is a world full of hope, it’s people becoming more and more active, posting more and more on social media, regarding activism and how people can get involved and educate themselves on issues that they’re connected to, that they’re inspired by, that they are interested in. The world I’m fighting for is a world where urban oil drilling is read about in books and they think it was ridiculous that it went on for so long. It’s a world where nobody is being denied the right to breathe clean air, that everybody has access to this basic human right and everybody has access to safe drinking water.” — Nalleli Cobo, environmental justice activist

“The world that I’m fighting for is one that advocates for the rights, resources and livelihood of the people in our community who’ve been historically and constantly marginalized. I’m fighting for a world that prioritizes unity and empathy and making sure that our communities place importance on uplifting, liberating one another.” — Ruby Ibarra, M.C., poet, director and scientist

In this episode, host Tonya Mosley hangs out with two Wise Ones, Alex Aiono, a musician, podcast host and YouTube star, and Jelani Anglin, founder of Good Call NYC.

Anglin grew up in New York and experienced a run-in with the law as a teenager. “That’s a story that many young Black males have had,” says Anglin. “And if they don’t,