Quotes about Solidarity

This kind of action is a prevalent error among oppressed peoples. It is based upon the false notion that there is only a limited and particular amount of freedom that must be divided up between us, with the largest and juiciest pieces of liberty hging as spoils to the victor or the stronger. So instead of joining together to fight for more, we quarrel between ourselves for a larger slice of the one pie.

We are nothing mankind is all

We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, One, indivisible and forever.

If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Where there is unconditional love, the wound of one is the wound of all.

Speak out for those who cannot speak"—who in the church today realizes that this is the very least that the Bible requires of us?

He now began to think of the church as called by God to "stand with those who suffer".

Years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous words: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Trade Unionist.

They understood that America would not flourish without great help from all Americans.

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.