Quotes about Solidarity
Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.
- Jesse Jackson
Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!
- Edith Wharton
Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.
- Desmond Tutu
The Crucified One is God's standing solidarity with the suffering, the tragedy, and the disaster of all time, and God's promise that it will not have the final word. The Risen One is God's final word about the universe and what God plans to do with all suffering.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Isn't that ironic? The point of the Christian life is not to distinguish oneself from the ungodly, but to stand in radical solidarity with everyone and everything else. This is the full, final, and intended effect of the Incarnation—symbolized by its finality in the cross, which is God's great act of solidarity instead of judgment.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
One side effect of our individualized reading of the Gospel is that it allows the clergy great control over individual behavior, via threats and rewards. Obedience to authorities became the highest virtue in this framework, instead of love, communion, or solidarity with God or others, including the marginalized.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will get us all to our destination together in love.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
When people get together in solidarity and unity, not out of power but out of powerlessness, then Christ is in their midst.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
The point of the Christian life is not to distinguish oneself from the ungodly, but to stand in radical solidarity with everyone and everything else. This is the full, final, and intended effect of the Incarnation—symbolized by its finality in the cross, which is God's great act of solidarity instead of judgment.
- Fr. Richard Rohr