Quotes About Solidarity

from Booker T. Washington himself: "You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

And when we allow freedom to ring . . . we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last.

Why should you care if there is a hole in the ship if the hole is not in your cabin?

No one is free until all of us are free.

This," cried the Mayor, "is your town's darkest hour! The time for all Whos who have blood that is red To come to the aid of their country!" he said. "We've GOT to make noises in greater amounts! So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

Of course,' Horton answered. 'Of course I will stick. I'll stick by you small folks through thin and through thick!

I just hold it down for my side, I just hold it down for my set. I just give everybody a piece of this and make do with whats left

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.

If all are equal, then none is strong.

We walked together in the pages of those paperbacks and marched right out of the pages to walk – and eventually march – together in the streets.

I understand that one person in 100,000 suffers from the disease and I am also aware that there are 100,000 members of my union, the Screen Actors Guild, who are working every day. I think, therefore, it is in some way considerate of me that I have taken on the disease for myself, thus protecting the remaining 99,999 members from this fate.

and then I knew that only the dreams of a stone don't become cracked and only the heart of a stone endures.

Common aim is stronger than blood.

Speaking of friends, the best ones always have your back.

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.

More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

Live your life in ways that do not support wars, whosoever are the victims.

No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

By the 1980s, influenced by the psychology and popular culture of trauma, the Left had abandoned solidarity across difference in favor of the meditation on and expression of suffering, a politics of feeling and resentment, of self and sensitivity. The Right, if it didn't describe itself as engaging in identity politics, adopted the same model: the NRA, notably, cultivated the resentments and grievances of white men