(186 quotes found)
“Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Helping others is like helping yourself.”
Henry Flagler
“The test of our progress is not whether we add to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough to those who have little.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.”
Elie Wiesel
“Solidarity is not discovered by reflection, but created. It is created by increasing our senstivity to the particular details of the pain and humiliation of other, unfamiliar sorts of people. Such increased sensitivity makes it more difficult to marginialize people different from ourselves by thinking, 'They do not feel as WE would,' or 'There must always be suffering, so why not let THEM suffer?'”
Richard Rorty
“I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.”
Giorgos Seferis
“The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.”
Jill Ruckelshaus
“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
“Remember the solidarity shown to Palestine here and everywhere... and remember also that there is a cause to which many people have committed themselves, difficulties and terrible obstacles notwithstanding. Why? Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights.”
Edward Said
