Charity Vs Solidarity Quotes

#1. I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

Eduardo Galeano

#2. Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Eduardo Galeano

#3. The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.

Claudio Hummes

#4. Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

Samora Machel

#5. International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is an act of unity between allies fighting on different terrains toward the same objective. The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development of humanity to the highest level possible.

Samora Machel

#6. Justice not charity, solidarity not pity, opportunity not handouts.

Samantha Nutt

#7. Quite clearly, the one thing the dominant culture cannot tolerate or co-opt is compassion, the ability to stand in solidarity with the victims of the present order. It can manage charity and good intentions, but it has no way to resist solidarity with pain or grief. So

Walter Brueggemann