Quotes about Solidarity

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

A whole lot of us believers, of all different religions, are ready to turn back the tide of madness by walking together, in both the dark and the light - in other words, through life - registering voters as we go, and keeping the faith.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Doc Daneeka was Yossarian's friend and would do just about nothing in his power to help him.

Unity increases power.

The creedal disclosure of Exod. 34:6-7 and the initial "pray-back" of Moses in Numbers 14 form a tap root for Israel's recurring prayer to this You who does wonders of costly solidarity.

Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.

Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief. So

Being truly human and living in community are inseparable. This wisdom is beautifully captured in an African proverb: "I am human only because you are human."