Quotes On Solidarity

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice anywhere. -Martin Luther King Jr. "Letter from the
Birmingham Jail". 1963

Our struggle as women, men, blacks, workers, Brazilians, North Americans, French, or
Bolivians,
is influenced by our gender, race, class, culture, and history, conditionings that mark us. Our
struggle, nevertheless, departs from these conditionings and converges in the direction of
being more, in the direction of universal objectives. Or else, for me at least, the fight would
make no sense. -Paulo Freire, Letters, 1996

They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they arrested
the trade unionists and I did not speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came
for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me and
by that time no one was left to speak up. -Martin Niemoller, Minister

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. -Philo of Alexandra, Philosopher

The future of [humanity] lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take
up their responsibilities to all living things. -Vine Deloria Jr., God is Red (1973)

It is important for community workers to remember that we don't empower anyone. We are
given the opportunity to attend (think of a midwife) the process of the people empowering
themselves.
-Lawlor Lee, Activist and Teacher

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; If
a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well
as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I
am involved in mankind; and therefore never send for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.
-John Donne (1572-1631) Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.

There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymores's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you
know that God damn secret yet? And don't you know - listen to me now - don't you know who
that Fat Lady really is?....Ah buddy, it's Christ Himself. Its Christ Himself buddy. -J. D. Salinger,
Franny and Zooey

Help the weak ones that cry for help, help the prosecuted and the victim... they are the
comrades that fight and fall... for the conquest of the joy of freedom for all the poor workers.
In this struggle for life you will find more life and you will be loved. -Nocoa Sacco (1891-1927)
Letter to his son.