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Quotes About Solidarity

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!
~ Stokely Carmichael
All I can say is if you check my record going back a long time, I have stood with those who are hurting. I have stood with those who have no money.
~ Bernie Sanders
In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.
~ Jose Marti
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each time we look upon the poor, on the farmworkers who harvest the coffee, the sugarcane, or the cotton... remember, there is the face of Christ.
~ Oscar Romero
We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.
~ Joseph Stalin
Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.There are men who can't be bought.
~ Carl Sandburg
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every time a person sacrifices himself for a larger injustice, it aids in the cycle of change.
~ Amy Carter
Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.
~ Wesley Clark
The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.
~ Nelson Mandela
One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.
~ Frances Parkinson Keyes
When the Fascists entered Denmark, the Jews were ordered to sew yellow stars on their clothing so they could be easily recognized. The Danes promptly sewed on yellow stars, both to save the Jews and to save themselves from turning into Fascists. Their king joined with them. In
~ Anna Politkovskaya
I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground.
~ Anne Frank
Yo no creo que la guerra sólo sea cosa de grandes hombres, gobernantes y capitalistas. ¡Nada de eso! Al hombre pequeño también le gusta; si no, los pueblos ya se habrían levantado contra ella.
~ Anne Frank
Wat één christen doet, moet hijzelf verantwoorden, wat één jood doet, valt op alle joden terug.
~ Anne Frank
vuelto a tomar conciencia del hecho de que somos judíos encadenados, encadenados a un único lugar, sin derechos, con miles de obligaciones.
~ Anne Frank
Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.
~ Anne Lamott
What a paradox: that we connect with God, with divinity, in our flesh and blood and time and space. We connect with God in our humanity. A great truth, attributed to Emily Dickinson, is that "hope inspires the good to reveal itself." This is almost all I ever need to remember. Gravity and sadness yank us down, and hope gives us a nudge to help one another get back up or to sit with the fallen on the ground, in the abyss, in solidarity.
~ Anne Lamott
It turns out that welcome is solidarity. We're glad you're here, and we're with you. This whole project called you being alive, you finding joy? Well, we're in on that.
~ Anne Lamott
I speak of the skill of working together, the technique of crossing the arbitrary lines of land, craft, and status, because we must learn more from each other than the simple fact that none of us can stand alone and survive!
~ Anne McCaffrey
the honest friendship where there was no barrier between men and women, where speech was not forever dictated by social ritual rather than true thoughts and feelings, where people worked side by side for a desperate common cause and only courage and skill mattered.
~ Anne Perry
Those two were unconquerable, either divided or together, it did not matter.
~ Anne Rice
He should have known someone like Lucien de Malheur would offer no loyalty, no male solidarity.
~ Anne Stuart