Understanding Integrity, Civility and Grace

The class has chosen examples of courageous people that shared their talents, inspirations and passions to the benefit of others. The word integrity used in our site, evolved from the Latin adjective integer, meaning whole or complete. The personalities chosen are well known around the world for carrying out their work with moral and ethical principles, transcending their own interests in favor of a common good. They also carried their actions with civility, a word that comes from the Latin word civilis, relating to the improvement of public life, and with grace, which derives from the Greek, charis meaning loving kindness, another trait of how their contributions to humanity were carried out.