Quotes About Solidarity

At the first of the funerals the bishop of Coventry said, "Let us vow before God to be better friends and neighbors in the future, because we have suffered this together and have stood here today.

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One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war is that deep down each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die.

Our task for the future is exploring what it means for each individual to be a member of earth's household, a commonwealth of kindred beings. Whether we will use our freedom to encapsulate ourselves in narrow, tribal, paranoid personalities and create more bloody Utopias or to form compassionate communities of the abandoned is still to be decided.

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

I'm going to stay with you. If you go to jail, we might as well both go.

Nessun uomo è un'isola, completo in se stesso; ogni uomo è un pezzo del continente, una parte del tutto. Se anche solo una nuvola venisse lavata via dal mare, l'Europa ne sarebbe diminuita, come se le mancasse un promontorio, come se venisse a mancare una dimora di amici tuoi, o la tua stessa casa. La morte di qualsiasi uomo mi sminuisce, perché io sono parte dell'umanità. E dunque non chiedere mai per chi suona la campana: suona per te.

How can there be solidarity of workers with fools like you?

They are good, he said. They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish.

for all the poor in the world against all tyranny

Those men are not fascists, they are same people as us.

any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde

Nul homme n'est une île en soi. Nous faisons tous partie d'un continent et chaque fois que tu entends sonner le glas, ne demande pas pour qui il sonne, il sonne pour toi. --Ernest Hemingway, "Pour qui sonne le glas"?

The last thing they ever want is to see a black man stand, and think, and show that common humanity that is in us all. It would destroy their myth. They would no longer have the justification for having made us slaves and keeping us in the condition we are in. As long as none of us stand, they're safe. They're safe with me. They're safe with Reverend Ambrose. I don't want them to feel safe with you any more.

The message of all spirituality is that, in some mysterious way, we are all one—that therefore the joy and the sorrow of any one of us is the joy and the sorrow of all of us.

The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMPRE

There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.

We are, in other words, continuous with everything here on earth. Including, and especially, each other.

Friends show their love in times of trouble.