Quotes about Solidarity

Christian reached out and grabbed his hand and Help pulled him out of the mucky mire (He brought me up also out of the pit of hopelessness, out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and straightened my steps. — Psalm 40:2), and set him upon solid ground.

A team is a group of people who may not be equal in experience, talent, or education but in commitment.

Leaders gain credibility when they suffer with those they lead.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without people working together.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were . . .

In good times and bad times, I'll be on your side for ever more...that's what friends are for.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.

The Republican ethos underlying these landmark provisions was aptly framed by the great abolitionist Republican, Frederick Douglass. Douglass said, "It is evident that white and black must fall or flourish together. In light of this great truth, laws ought to be enacted, and institutions established—all distinctions, founded on complexion, and every right, privilege and immunity, now enjoyed by the white man, ought to be as freely granted to the man of color."

The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way.