Margaret MacMillan Quotes

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.

Social solidarity must rest instead on the sole secure basis it can have: direct responsibility of people for one another. Such responsibility can be realized through the principle that every able-bodied adult holds a position within the caring economy - the part of the economy in which people care for one another - as well as within the production system.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

If we all looked out for each other a little bit more, I think we wouldn't have a lot of the crisis that we have in today's society.

There's always going to be a need for activism; there's always going to be a need for you and me doing the right thing, being very Lincoln-sonian in looking out for each other.

There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

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.

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

People care for their community and will invest in their community and will look out for each other if they are challenged to do so.

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.

No one really disagrees that all of humanity has a responsibility to protect fellow citizens in a time of need.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

We cannot just rely on the public sector or the private sector. We all need to work together.

We have to take care of each other's children.

If we don't spend our time on this earth looking out for one another, what are we really doing with our lives?

A person's either responsible for themselves or we're all responsible for each other.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all