Solidarity Quotes - Page 11

• True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

  Jose Bergamin

  Solitary

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• France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

  Francois Hollande

  Fall, Responsibility, Europe

  "Hollande fires warning shot at Merkel over austerity on eve of EU summit" by Angelique Chrisafis and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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• The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood.

  Jon Huertas

  Military, Home, Air

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• The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or care or family or society or solidarity is necessary - these are immoral teachings that have done and continue to inflict untold moral and physical harm on our species. And until we outgrow this nonsense, we have no chance of emancipating ourselves.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Teaching, Taken, Enemy

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• Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Two, Decision, Helpful

  György Konrád (1995). “The Melancholy of Rebirth: Essays from Post-communist Central Europe, 1989-1994”, Harcourt

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• Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Loyalty, Honesty, Self

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• "This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Thank You, Teaching, Heart

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• We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiring, Wise, Brother

  Pope Francis' Message to Cardinal Kurt Koch On The Occasion of The 10th General Assembly of The World Council Of Churches, w2.vatican.va. October 4, 2013.

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• Jesus doesn’t dominate the other, avoid the other, colonize the other, intimidate the other, demonize the other, or marginalize the other. He incarnates into the other, joins the other in solidarity, protects the other, listens to the other, serves the other, even lays down his life for the other.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Intimidating, Protect

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• I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Thinking, Political, Growing

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling.

  Pope Francis

  Majority, Crumbling, Income

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.35, Orbis Books

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• The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

  Pope Francis

  Justice, World, Return

  "Pope Francis Is About to Blow Elizabeth Warren Out of the Water" by AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. September 15, 2015.

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• The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity. And why should they not turn to God to draw inspiration from his designs? In this way, a new political and economic mindset would arise that would help to transform the absolute dichotomy between the economic and social spheres into a healthy symbiosis.

  Pope Francis

  Inspiration, Justice, Design

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.36, Orbis Books

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• And there is this fact of the twelve baskets: why twelve? What does it mean? Twelve is the number of the tribes of Israel, symbolically it represents all the people. And this tells us that when food is shared equally, with solidarity, nobody is devoid of the necessary, each community can meet the needs of the poorest. Human ecology and environmental ecology go hand in hand.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Israel, Hands

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• The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity.., networks of solidarity which can expand to embrace and transform society by their prophetic witness.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Honesty, Integrity

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.73, BookBaby

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• It is now, more than ever, necessary that political leaders be outstanding for honesty, integrity and commitment to the common good. Thus will they be able to marshal the moral resources needed to face the demands of the present, and to pass on to coming generations a society of authentic justice, solidarity and peace.

  Pope Francis

  Honesty, Integrity, Commitment

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• We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

  Fighting, Racism, Black

  YouTube Channel "Mas Sergio"/"Fred Hampton - 'Political Prisoner'", www.youtube.com. January 06, 2013.

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• In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all.

  Pope Francis

  Media, Creating, Effort

  Message of Pope Francis for the 48th World Communications Day, w2.vatican.va. June 1, 2014.

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• Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.

  Pope John Paul I

  Sports, Loyalty, Perseverance

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• Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.

  Thomas Frank

  Beer, Class, Long

  Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.118, Macmillan

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• There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Disappointment, Choices, Pockets

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• If the new government rejects our urgent appeal, we will, next year, in solidarity with our people, intensify our struggle for self-determination, our struggle for national liberation to establish self-government in our homeland.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Determination, Struggle, Government

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• Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in unity against extremism in all its forms and to stand up for our cherished faith, Islam. And so that the lasting image of these terrible events is an unprecedented outpouring of sympathy and support between people of all faiths and cultures.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  Kings, Paris, Terrible Events

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• In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for achieving freedom and solidarity in economic life; the ways believed to correspond more closely with justice and freedom for the distribution of the means of production and the products of labour among men. Bakunin was an anarchist, and he was a collectivist, an outspoken enemy of communism because he saw in it the negation of freedom and, therefore, of human dignity.

  Errico Malatesta

  Mean, Men, Justice

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.22, PM Press

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• Polygamy and polyandry distribute the frightening physical solidarity of monogamy. Monogamous couples are always hungry for company: to dilute sex.

  Laura Riding

  Sex, Couple, Hungry

  "Anarchism Is Not Enough". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter: "The Damned Thing", 1928.

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