Jackie Robinson Quotes

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

The choices of one shape the futures of all.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

If your neighbor's reality changes, yours will change as well.

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

No man is born unto himself alone; Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

What we do as a community, as a society, for each other, matters as much as what we do for ourselves. It sounds a little trite, but there's a powerful amount of truth in that, I think.

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

My life is not my own business.

You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.

What happens to one directly happens to all indirectly.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.