Quotes about Solidarity

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

But sometimes I fear that the people of my country can unite only beside victims' bodies, over coffins and in cemeteries. Like tribesmen who dance around old totems, we ignore the living and can only appreciate the dead.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

We weren't put on Earth to exclude each other.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer—as does it.

Think too of all who suffer as if you shared their pain. HEBREWS 13:3

Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep," advised the apostle Paul (Romans 12:15), wise words that apply especially in times of crisis.

Until women are deeply involved in opposing the violence in the world, we are not going to bring it to an end. All women must be equally at the forefront of the movements for social justice.

To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.