Quotes About Solidarity

First unite yourself to unite everyone.

If we are of one mind, thousands can be conquered.If we are of one heart, millions can be conquered.If we are of one soul, countless can be conquered.

When success is uniform, the celebration becomes universal. Of which use is it to you to rejoice at the time your friend cries?

You can't do it better without teamwork.

If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

I have no commiseration for princes. My sympathies are reserved for the great mass of mankind ….

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

I never ride horseback now because my sympathy with the under-dog is too keen. After we have a gone a few blocks, I always dismount and say to the horse: 'We'll walk it together, old dear.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...

Every Communist working in the mass movements should be a friend of the masses and not a boss over them, an indefatigable teacher and not a bureaucratic politician.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

For refugees everywhere — may you find home

Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.

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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Women intend to save themselves when sacrificing some women, but only the freedom of all women protects any woman.

Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women`s movement stronger and better; that I`d give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to honour-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

Only the toughest among women will make the necessary next moves, the revolutionary moves, and among prostituted women one finds the toughest if not always the best. If prostituted women worked together to end male supremacy, it would end. Surviving degradation is an ongoing process that gives you rights, honor and knowledge, because you earn them.

On what motivated her: I see it like this. All women are on a leash, because we are all oppressed. But those who get to adulthood without being raped or beaten have a longer leash than those who were. It should be that the ones with the longest leashes do more to help others. But it doesn't work that way, so we are the ones that fight the fight.