John Winthrop Quotes

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

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

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

Human beings are members of a whole, In creation of one essence and soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, The name of human you cannot retain.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

We are all one, so let's help each other out.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

To be without love is to be without grace, what matters most in life. We is so much better than I.

Life is better when you share it.

Solidarity is based on the principle that we are willing to put ourselves at risk to protect each other.

We all have to do our part, because we are all in this together and it matters.

It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.

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.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

We all need each other.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

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.

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

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.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.