Quotes about Solidarity

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth.

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Fellowship is much, much more than food and fun and even more than reading and studying the Scriptures with another believer. Fellowship at times may involve blood, sweat, and tears as we stand side by side with our persecuted brothers and sisters.

I have watched them all day and they are the same men that we are. I believe that I could walk up to the mill and knock on the door and I would be welcome except that they have orders to challenge all travelers and ask to see their papers. It is only orders that come between us. Those men are not fascists. I call them so, but they are not. They are poor men as we are. They should never be fighting against us and I do not like to think of the killing.

They are good, he said. They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish.

Our Federal Union - It Must Be Preserved

David Ponder, I say to you now that this is the first time in history that men have fought to set another man free. Most of us Maine boys have never even seen black skin on a man, but if it is true that all men are created equal, then we are fighting for each other. We are fighting because it is the right thing to do."

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Where there is unity there is always victory.