The achievement of freedom and equality implies that no one's rights violate anybody else's in any way. The balance between these values is struck when the community assumes the responsiblity for its members but also when, at the same time, the citizens take charge of themselves, look after each other and concern themselves with their community as well. In a solidary society, people respect mutually each other's rights, further equality and common welfare. They do not exploit each other, they do not take advantage of society in pursuit of egoist aspirations. The environment belongs to all Solidarity extends beyond the limits of the generations.
Mankind is a part of nature towards which it has responsibilities to assume.
Protecting the environment and elaborating modes of production which are more sensitive to the environment form a responsibility which is bequeathed by one generation to the other pursuant to the principle of lasting development. All people are entitled to enjoy the diversity of nature and the well-being it provides. The struggle for the right to live in freedom and dignity is conducted all over the world. The international social democratic movement stands up for the oppressed against the oppressor, for the destitute against the power of the stronger. Despair must be turned into the hope of common responsibility, egoist greed into a celebration of the mind and of solidarity.