Solidarity — Philosophical Quotes
Arendt used the word plurality: the fact that we are all different, and that this difference is exactly what makes collective action possible. Freire built his entire method on dialogue between people who refuse to see each other as objects. Baldwin kept insisting that Americans face their shared history together or not at all. Solidarity, in these pages, is never sentimental. It is the hard-won recognition that no one gets free alone.
25 quotes from 10 voices: Hannah Arendt, Albert Camus, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Václav Havel, Rollo May.
- “What makes loneliness so unbearable is the loss of one's own self which can b...” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
- “Action, the only activity that goes on directly between men without the inter...” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
- “I rebel; therefore we exist.” — Albert Camus, The Rebel
- “Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, bu...” — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- “Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless me...” — Paulo Freire, The Politics of Education
- “Only dialogue, which requires critical thinking, is also capable of generatin...” — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
- “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. To be healed we must come...” — bell hooks, All About Love
- “I am often struck by the dangerous narcissism fostered by spiritual rhetoric ...” — bell hooks, All About Love
- “Hell is other people.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
- “To will oneself free is also to will others free.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
- “If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don't see.” — James Baldwin, A Rap on Race
- “Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and tempo...” — Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider
- “The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, fo...” — Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic
- “With word and deed we insert ourselves into the human world, and this inserti...” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
- “There are more things to admire in men than to despise.” — Albert Camus, The Plague
- “The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions ...” — Albert Camus, The Plague
- “One can give nothing whatever without giving oneself — that is to say, riskin...” — James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- “The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, ...” — Václav Havel, Address to US Congress
- “Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, ...” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
- “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. Fo...” — Albert Camus, The Plague
- “Care is a state in which something does matter; it is the source of human ten...” — Rollo May, Love and Will
- “Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of comm...” — bell hooks, All About Love
- “Action, the only activity that goes on directly between men without the inter...” — Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
- “To catch a glimmer of oneself in the other — this is the deepest joy the huma...” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
- “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of t...” — James Baldwin, The Paris Review Interviews