Quotes About Solidarity

In a time when people have forgotten how to be neighbors, simply sharing a meal or a movie together is a political act.

golden age of community

For Marxists, social justice meant an equal distribution of society's material goods. By contrast, Christian social justice sought to create conditions of unity that enabled all people—rich and poor alike—to live in solidarity and mutual charity as pilgrims on the road to unity with Christ.

It's no accident that every dictatorship always tries to break down the family, because it's in the family that you get the strength to be able to fight," says Maria Komaromi...

By their indifference to solidarity, and surrendering to social disintegration as the new normal, Christians make it easier for those in power who hate us to control us.

Romaszewska is fierce on the subject of, well, solidarity. She sees the danger of soft totalitarianism coming fast, and urges young people to get off the internet and get together face-to-face to build resistance

As I see it, this is the core, this is the essence of everything right now: Forming these communities and networks of communities," she says. "Whatever kinds of communities you can imagine. The point is that the members of that community must be very supportive of one another, no matter what comes. You don't have to be prepared to give your life for the other person, but you do have to have something in common, and to do things together.

unite all the Greeks and lead them in avenging the wrongs inflicted by the Persians

in the full Assembly.

There is something almost sacred about the bond that unites these troops

We can no longer afford to ignore the work of others and to plan our missions as though other missions did not exist.

but just remember that men have never had more need of company than they have today. That fellow Morel said it straight out, in his famous petition. We need all the dogs, all the cats, and all the birds, and all the elephants we can find...

stones are hard everywhere.

Nations are not easily forged since many identities have to be coalesced.

Many mickles make a muckle.

De Tocqueville admired "the extreme skill with which the inhabitants of the United States succeed in proposing a common object to the exertions of a great many men, and in getting them voluntarily to pursue it.

Care for the hurting and oppressed.

No one will hear our pleas for the unborn if, at the same time, we ignore the devaluation of other marginalized populations outside of the womb.

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

L'égalité politique s'incarne à partir du moment où l'exploitation économique est radicalement anéantie

What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.

Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom.

Por um mundo onde sejamos socialmente iguais, humanamente diferentes e totalmente livres.