Violence drives humans past balance and decency; it always has. At this protest in Bogata, Columbia, the police lost, and angry protesters had them surrounded. Seeing  that a serious set of beatings were about to commence, this woman jumped in between the groups. By doing so, she brought these people from primate-level violence back to their humanity.

Humans, as advanced as we are, remain vulnerable to primitive impulses. And so we may need, from time to time, to pull each other away from those vulnerabilities… as this brave lady did.

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Before going back to the mundane, imagine being in this woman’s place… or remember a time when you saw such a situation. There is a time and place for just about everything, and pulling people back from the brink still matters to us. Either imagine or remember yourself doing it.