Quotes About Solidarity

So long as He lived among men, our Saviour shared the lot of the poor. He knew by experience their cares and hardships, and He could comfort and encourage all humble workers.

We need each other. All of us. We cannot be alone.

God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.

We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that they are molded of the same clay as their oppressors.

Uno debe ponerse del lado de los oprimidos en cualquier circunstancia, incluso cuando están equivocados, sin perder de vista, no obstante, que están hechos del mismo barro que sus opresores.

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.

Solidarity is, literally something which the society possesses.

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Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.

Social man...is the masterpiece of existence.

A person or family can never bear the burden of whole nation's sins.

The State, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. It shatters the universal solidarity of all men on the earth, and brings some of them into association only for the purpose of destroying, conquering, and enslaving all the rest.

The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Bigger dreams of some black man who will weld all blacks together into a mighty fist.

If a woman so much as stands alone and by herself somewhere, all sorts of men gather around her showing their teeth.

We're all brothers and sisters when we're in trouble, aren't we?

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

So, I think the important thing is for us to work together. This shouldn't be a Democratic-Republican battle.

We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.

I love crowds. They make me feel part of something big and important.

The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?

When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply and conveniently -- than she has made a great sacrifice for you, she has made of a gift of some part of her abilities, her health, and her life.