Quotes About Solidarity

To this day, I believe the unity of the world's countries in the fight against terror is more powerful than the fight itself.

The military is only as strong as the other institutions supporting it.

The black church is quite literally a sounding board for vetting ideas and voicing frustrations so black folk can stay sane in the midst of America's denial of black humanity.

The motto of Meritocracy is that of the Three Musketeers: All for one and one for all – the perfect synthesis of the individual and group. The group has your back, and you must do your best for yourself and the group.

Ich habe einen Kameraden gefunden. (I have found a comrade)

Power to the peaceful!

They chose to be introduced as a team.

This kid was writing saying that they were breaking down some of the racial lines in their towns and communities, because their break dance crews were mixed race, and they didn't give a fuck. They didn't care what the Klu Klux Klan said." - Michael Holman (screenwriter, Basquiat) from nthWORD Issue #8, coming soon...

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

I don't watch that much comedy. I think it's professional jealousy. That and a lack of support for my community.

But a perfect meritocracy banishes all sense of gift or grace. It diminishes our capacity to see ourselves as sharing a common fate. It leaves little room for the solidarity that can arise when we reflect on the contingency of our talents and fortunes. This is what makes merit a kind of tyranny, or unjust rule.

They resented meritocratic elites, experts, and professional classes, who had celebrated market-driven globalization, reaped the benefits, consigned working people to the discipline of foreign competition, and who seemed to identify more with global elites than with their fellow citizens.

Altruism, generosity, solidarity and civic spirit are not like commodities that are depleted with use. They are more like muscles that develop and grow stronger with exercise. One of the defects of a market-driven society is that it lets these virtues languish. To renew our public life we need to exercise them more strenuously.

leaving poor whites without "the comfort of knowing that someone was worse off and more despised than they were.

Em condições de desigualdade desenfreada e de mobilidade social estagnada, a repetição da mensagem de que somos responsáveis pelo nosso destino e que merecemos o que recebemos corrói a solidariedade e desmoraliza aqueles que foram deixados para trás pela globalização.

My heart and prayers go out to every individual

For the evangelical left, every Facebook update can be a personal march on Selma.

Friends are not the people you meet at the top they are the people who were with you at the bottom.

United fronts against something are always easier to maintain than coalitions for something.

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold. (Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)

I intend to do the same with him that I'd do for you or any other man in this brigade.

This economic arrangement worked only because their lives were so oriented toward the group that they didn't even consider their possessions their own but "had everything in common" (Acts 4: 32 ESV). While this probably didn't mean a one-time divestment of every single piece of individual property into a common fund, it absolutely meant people sold land and houses to share with the group.

Men always imagine that women are bonded by ideas of sisterhood and solidarity, but we pick our fights and our friends.

Only a more Savage Nation can survive.