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Quotes About Solidarity

It's just person after person in every different country that has a life that I can't even imagine and has gone through horror that I can't even imagine.
~ Angelina Jolie
When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
~ Bernie Glassman
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.
~ Carl Sandburg
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.
~ Cesar Chavez
TO FORM GROUPS, drawing visceral comfort and pride from familiar fellowship, and to defend the group enthusiastically against rival groups—these are among the absolute universals of human nature and hence of culture.
~ Edward O. Wilson
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
~ Edward R. Murrow
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
~ Edward R. Murrow
By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.
~ Edwin Markham
The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.
~ Edwin Markham
Such a politics is destructive to social happiness and peace, religious sweetness, knowledge brightness, moral gaiety, welfare beauty, and state stability and solidarity that continue to overthrow each other in the same state.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
A fief, the elder Hosokawa had advised, was like a castle wall built of many rocks. A rock that could not be cut to fit in comfortably with the others would weaken the whole structure, even though the rock itself might be of admirable size and quality.
~ Eiji Yoshikawa
Man attains not by himself, nor woman by herself, but like the one-winged birds of the ancient legend, they must rise together.
~ Eileen Goudge
Friends! It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine tree and the cypress to be evergreens, and friends are known in adversity.
~ Eileen Goudge
Man does not attain the one-winged birds of our childhood's tale, they must rise together.
~ Eileen Goudge
Það er alltaf einhver sem þarf á hjálp að halda. Það er alltaf einhver úti í kuldanum, einhver að leita að hendi í snjónum.
~ Einar Már Guðmundsson
Actors are one family over the entire world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Non era riuscito a stare zitto, l'amicizia tra maschi ha i suoi patti non scritti ma solidi, non come quella tra femmine.
~ Elena Ferrante
Let me remind all of us--disabled and nondisabled--that every time we defend our intelligence, we come close to disowning intellectually disabled people. We imply that it might be okay to exclude, devalue, and institutionalize people who actually live with body-mind conditions that impact the ways they think, understand, and process information. The only way out of this trap is to move toward, not away from, intellectually disabled people, to practice active solidarity.
~ Eli Clare
The unity of a nation consists mainly in its being able to act, when necessary, like a single paranoiac.
~ Elias Canetti
This isn't the Palestinian flag. Palestine isn't a country for it to have a flag. Palestine is a condition. Every Arab is a Palestinian. Every poor man who carries a gun is a Palestinian. Palestine is the condition of us all.
~ Elias Khoury
Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
~ Elie Wiesel
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
~ Elie Wiesel
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
~ Elie Wiesel