Quotes about Solidarity

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

No man has believed perfectly until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

Bütün uyuyanlar? uyand?rmaya bir tek uyan?k yeter.

The well-meaning white people, I said, had to combat, actively and directly, the racism in other white people. And

Do not be ashamed of help.

A house divided against itself could not stand.

They say: Speak for us (to whom?) Some say: Avenge us (on whom?) Some say: Take our place. Some say: Witness Others say (and these are women) Be happy for us.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

What a paradox: that we connect with God, with divinity, in our flesh and blood and time and space. We connect with God in our humanity. A great truth, attributed to Emily Dickinson, is that "hope inspires the good to reveal itself." This is almost all I ever need to remember. Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.

It turns out that welcome is solidarity. We're glad you're here, and we're with you. This whole project called you being alive, you finding joy? Well, we're in on that.