From Marina Glocovac, “A case for re-entering society based on solidarity”, Toronto Star, 12 November, 2021:
:Simone Weil, the French philosopher and activist, worked on a farm and routinely starved herself in solidarity with peasants and labourers, despite coming from a family of means.
At the age of 18, my dad hid for months in the woods of Yugoslavia to escape German occupiers, and depended on the kindness of strangers willing to take personal risks to help him. Later, he shared incredibly scarce and life-saving doss of penicillin with his hospital mates, even though he knew it would compromise his own health.
Stories from crises past and present, of actions large and small, where people chose to push against their fears and self-interest. These are the greatest affirmations of our humanity and our shared destiny—and thye are what we need now”.