I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated
Christopher HitchensTags: friendship love compassion death sympathy illness solidarity
."Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.
Rebecca SolnitTags: utopias solidarity disasters
A hand fought best when it made a fist.
Guy Gavriel KayTags: unity nations solidarity
Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.
Christopher HitchensTags: war enthusiasm solidarity reactionary-politics
Comradeship, dignity, amorosity, love, solidarity, fraternity, friendship, ethics: all these names stand in contrast to the commodified, monetised relations of capitalism, all describe relations developed in struggles against capitalism and which can be seen as anticipating or creating a society beyond capitalism.
John HollowayTags: solidarity anti-capitalism
Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others.
Bryant McGillTags: peace unity solidarity
Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.
Nawal El SaadawiTags: change solidarity
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
Cheryl StrayedTags: love death suffering healing solidarity miscarriage
I saw that you can’t do anything for anybody. We can’t save each other. Or ourselves.”
“What have you left, then? Isolation and despair! You’re denying brotherhood, Shevek!” the tall girl cried.
“No—no, I’m not. I’m trying to say what I think brotherhood really is. It begins—it begins in shared pain.
Tags: brotherhood solidarity
They tell me sir, that Stubb did once desert poor Pip, whose drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin. But I will never desert ye sir, as Stubb did him.
Herman MelvilleTags: solidarity
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