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Quotes about Solidarity

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.
- Jimmy Carter
We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more than having affairs with our wives." ? Bill Clinton
- Bill Clinton
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
- Booker T. Washington
Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
- Jesse Jackson
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.
- Frederick Douglass
It is my growing conviction that my life belongs to others just as much as it belongs to myself and that what is experienced as most unique often proves to be most solidly embedded in the common condition of being human.
- Henri Nouwen
Those who do not run away from our pains but touch them with compassion bring healing and new strength. The paradox indeed is that the beginning of healing is in the solidarity with the pain.
- Henri Nouwen
As long as religious people are well dressed, well fed, and well cared for, words about being in solidarity with the poor will remain pious words more likely to evoke good feelings than creative actions. As long as we are doing well what others are doing better and more efficiently, we can hardly expect to be considered the salt of the earth or the light of the world. In short, as long as we avoid displacement, we will miss the compassionate life to which our Lord calls us.
- Henri Nouwen
In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.
- Henri Nouwen