Quotes about Solidarity

Resistance is the protest of those who hope, and hope is the feast of the people who resist.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

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

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

There was a common proverb of old, "What is it to the Romans that the Greeks die?" So we think that our dangers and calamities only belong to ourselves. But how does this principle agree with the commandment of God? For his will is that we should all live together, and be to each other as brethren.

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.

Tony Campolo, back at Eastern College: "Jesus never says to the poor, 'Come find the church,' but he says to those of us in the church, 'Go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned,' Jesus in his disguises.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

For you will never be what you ought to be until they [your fellow humans] are what they ought to be.