Quotes about Solidarity

Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

It has always belonged to the truly great and strong to care for the weak and feeble.

Is it right to raise one's voice when others are being silenced? Yes.

It was not that they hoped to escape another judgment which might be coming upon them; but they desired solidarity. Today we hear a great deal about the "solidarity of humanity"; and the endeavor to secure it by putting God out of His own world is a very old piece of history. Apart from Him, the only really cohesive force for humanity is absent, and confusion must be the result.

Don't pray for us. Pray with us.

Then, if the hull go down, there'll be thirty lively fellows all fighting for one coffin, a sight not seen very often beneath the sun!

As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.

To me, it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from - if you're a good person and you got my back, I got yours.

I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Clarence Jordan, co-founder of Koinonia Farm, wrote, "The Good News of the resurrection is not that we shall die and go home with him, but that he is risen and comes home with us, bringing all his hungry, naked, thirsty, sick, prisoner brothers with him.