H. Rap Brown Quotes

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

It Takes A Village

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

One thing that makes France different from other countries is the tradition of social solidarity. People from all backgrounds and political positions are willing to contribute for services and protection of society as a whole - but on the condition that money is being spent effectively and that everyone is paying their part.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

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

We too often prefer the individual thrill to collective responsibility.

The only possible alternative to being either the oppressed or the oppressor is voluntary cooperation for the greatest good of all.

Society is held together by trust.

Neither the crushing powers of the centralized State nor the teachings of mutual hatred ... could weed out the feeling of human solidarity, deeply lodged in men's understanding and heart, because it has been nurtured by all our preceding evolution.

Earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.

My hope is that the corona crisis will help bring us into a new age of cooperation and solidarity and a realization that we're in this together.

Anarchy would be a world that nobody felt responsible for, that nobody felt any sort of love for. When there's real intelligence happening, when there's real love happening, there's a sense of responsibility: Hey, we've got to take care of this place and each other.

Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.

I believe we have a higher responsibility to each other.

We all have some basic obligation to one another.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.