Quotes about Solidarity

You don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here, too.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

I would never turn my back on my fellow citizens.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

We are Marshalls. We are not alone.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also wrong to divide people by income. East Germany was not an improvement over South Africa. Obama divides Americans against each other. This is wrong.

I had to look at white people as fellow South Africans and fellow partners in building a new South Africa.