Quotes About Solidarity

In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.

Women need each other. Be there for each other, and don't feel threatened.

We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.

No matter what political cause compels us, we should always feel as though it's being threatened. We should use these causes, whatever they are, to bring people together and get each other excited about our role, so we feel like we can't stop and won't stop.

We are defending our process, we are defending our revolution, which continues to be threatened, which continues to be attacked.

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

The debate on climate change has been tainted by its excessive concern with individual and national interests, short-termism, and lack of solidarity in face of global threats.

In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

I had to deal with it so often, I found ways of making a point against racism. When I played against Real Zaragoza, they chanted like monkeys and threw peanuts on the pitch. So when I scored, I danced in front of them like a monkey. When the same thing happened against Real Madrid, I scored and held my fist in a Black Power salute.

I don't think that a woman in politics exists or thrives on her own.

If we invest in ourselves, the collective good, we all thrive.

What does it look like to build a city, state, or nation invested in communities thriving rather than their death and destruction? To ask this question is the first act of an abolitionist.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

My name became known because I was, one might say accidentally the target of state repression and because so many people throughout the country and other parts of the world organized around the demand for my freedom.

One thing that stands out throughout the entire year was that in South Dakota we are much more united than we are divided. Now the divided part creates news, but the united part is what moves us forward.

To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

As a woman thrust on to the political stage and baffled by the anger and depth of negative feeling I have been targeted with, Mary Beard's 'Women & Power: A Manifesto' brought me a sense of solidarity, power and determination.

The Afro-American is thus the backbone of the South.

Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

No one helped my grandparents when a con man stole our house, or when I needed help paying for a plane ticket to get to college. But my community always had my back.