Quotes About Solidarity

Political pessimism keeps people trapped in a search for purely personal and individual solutions. But here's the truth: this despair isn't just self-defeating; I think it's actually empirically wrong. I reminded myself - forces as powerful as the tech companies have been defeated many times in human history, and it always happens in the same way. It is when ordinary people form movements and demand something better, and they don't give up until they have achieved it.

There's a force that is fracturing all of us.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice.

When you're nWo, you're nWo for life.

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

The development of the national spirit in its present form leads into blind alleys. Some condition must be found which preserves the life of the nation, but rules out the fatal rivalry among nations.

It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Better to join in with humanity than to set ourselves apart.

Sympathy has to be the first and foremost thing in one's life, sympathy and the feeling of oneness. There cannot be anything greater than the feeling of oneness .

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

No one gets left behind, you know that.

The broader and higher aspects of life are international.... There is a goal towards which all nations gravitate, and there is a common ground upon which all nations meet.

But we are all in the same boat, old and young. I never forget that.

All men are my brothers and as soon as one behaves as such he may see my wife.

My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.

But how can people?" they exclaimed, when anything was attacked, and subscribed to Defence Societies.

In the West, it may help if the church started thinking more in terms of we than me.

What does unhappiness matter when we are all unhappy together?

Perhaps among those who took to the greenwood in old time there had been two men like himself – two. At times he entertained the dream. Two men can defy the world.