Quotes About Solidarity

A number of governments, such as India and the Philippines, routinely opposed certain initiatives, preferring to elevate either solidarity among developing countries (and their collective desire to fend off criticism as unacceptable intervention) or the principle of state sovereignty over the protection of human beings.

Shall anything bolder be found than united woman?' Mr Spinks murmured.

the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members

we declared that an attack on any one colony should be considered as an attack on the whole. This

Ils se sont groupés, car une chose comme un pneumothorax rapproche naturellement les hommes, et ils s'appellent l'Association des demi-poumons [...].

The whole world shall be ours because of our love.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Nosotros somos paisanos. We are fellow countrymen. We come from the same soil.

Sisterhood is powerful.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

A core principle in our Refuge group is that we all can be an advocate and we all need an advocate. They are not mutually exclusive.

Heroic acts aren't just about running into a burning building to save someone. It's also rising up and saying, "No, I will not let my brothers and sisters be treated this way or the community that I live in harm the vulnerable.

They've caught us, but we still have to help the others! We have to stay focused on that!

Welfare states come in different shapes and sizes; they are constructed on diverging conceptions of social rights and duties; some stress equality and solidarity, others freedom; and the range of policy objectives is vast and widely dissimilar.

The whole atmosphere was team, team, team," Bratkowski said, "and that was really refreshing.

Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —Margaret Wheatley

If there's anything I can do- I know there probably isn't, but..." Just be here

If you say 'we're in this together,' I'm going to hurl.

As far as I was concerned, the best thing one could do for the poor was to not add one's self to their number.

Comrades and friends,' he begins, the translation and lip-synch software maxing his street-cred as usual in all the languages of the Community. For this particular nation and region, he comes across speaking English with a gravely Central Belt Scottish accent, which I know for a fact has been swiped from old tapes of the Communist trade union leader and authentic working class hero Mick MacGahey.

Conscious of each other's subjectivity in a direct and immediate way, they experienced no conflict between resolute solidarity and riotous individuality: they were indeed an association in which the free development of each was the condition for the free development of all.

Jesus reveals salvation, as the Marxist critic and occasional atheist Terry Eagleton observes, to be a matter not 'of cult, law and ritual', but of 'feeding the hungry, welcoming the immigrants, visiting the sick, and protecting the poor, orphaned and widowed from the violence of the rich'.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Well, if you don't like the idea of one world, how many worlds do you want, and how would you like them divided? By race? By religion? By income? Unless you have a spare planet in your pocket, one world is all we have.