Interdependence

"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community".
- William James

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe".
- John Muir

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality".
- Mahatma Gandhi

"...for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom".
- Martin Luther King Jr.