Quotes About Solidarity

I don't have a horror story to share like the ones we have heard from so many women in the #MeToo movement... But when you really listen to women, you begin to understand the million little ways in which all women are made less and denied the opportunity to contribute to their communities and their country.

If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?

When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.

The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart.

We and our fellow men of all countries must realize that we share this wonderful, beautiful, salubrious earth as brothers and that there never will be anywhere else to go.

I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

Projects meant living with blacks and Puerto Ricans, but that's what we wanted. Living in the projects, we've met so many wonderful, wonderful people.

The cornerstone of what makes our commonwealth a wonderful place to live is all that we share in common, not the things that set us apart.

Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved.

There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of 'law,' but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Making a donation is the ultimate sign of solidarity. Actions speak louder than words.

We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember I said, with the last words on my lips, that I am a revolutionary. And you're going to have to keep on saying that. You're going to have to say that I am a proletariat; I am the people.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Teamwork is the best kind of work, really.

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.