"Solidarity
is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to
tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active
collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition
of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it
or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on
the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we
know anything else is unaffordable."
- Aurora Levins Morales