Solidarity, recognition, friendship
“Friendship is never a given in the present; it belongs to the experience of waiting, of promise, or of commitment. Its discourse is that of prayer and at issue there is that which responsibility opens to the future. (…) this minimal community … this preliminary consent without which you would not understand me … speaking the same language or praying for translation within the horizon of the same language, even were it so to manifest a disagreement … we would not be together … if a sort of friendship had not already been sealed before any other contract: a friendship prior to friendship, an ineffaceable, fundamental and bottomless friendship, the one which draws its breath in the sharing of a language (past or to come) and in the being-together that any allocution supposes.”
- Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship, The Journal of Philosophy, 1988 pp. 636.