Dorothy Day Quotes

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

Within each such social group, a feeling of solidarity prevails, a compelling need to work together and a joy in doing so that represent a high moral value.

Reciprocity helps us balance the need for self-determination and creative individuality with mutual hope and, therefore, what might be described as 'solidarity.'

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.

Are we strong? Can we defend ourselves? Are we standing shoulder to shoulder? Do we stand up for each other?

It's easier to be ignorant and say I don't know about the problem. But once you know, once you've seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

As separate people, we are weak, but we could be a peaceful, powerful nation.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

United we stand, divided we fall.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

When you have unity, I think it squares the reach or power of the work.

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.

One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

I am a believer in cooperation.