Quotes About Solidarity

when it was your people being persecuted, it opened your eyes to the inhumanity of your actions.

Though free to think and act, we are all held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable.

There is no one left; none but all of us.

private citizens were asked to open their homes;

There is no one left," McClure exhorted his readers as he cast about for a remedy to America's woes at the turn of the twentieth century, "none but all of us.

Put ambition for the collective interest above self-interest.

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

People have forgotten how badly the refugees from Spain were treated, kept in camps near the border for years, as if they were criminals, to be punished. Well into the sixties, there were a couple of pubs in Soho where intensely poor Spaniards met to talk about how the world had forgotten them, and yet they had been the first to stand up to the Nazis, to the fascists.

There are a few of us around in the world, we rely on each other even though we don't know each other's names. But we rely on each other all the time. We're a team, we're the ones who haven't given in, who'll go on fighting.

I do not want to claim a safe and comfortable life for myself that is purchased at the cost of some other woman's needs or desires.

Without thinking at all deeply about anything, he was chiefly aware of the need to be back in a company of men, fighting something.

We cannot afford to be separate. . . . We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.

She felt a cozy solidarity with the big company of the voluntary dead.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Union gives strength.

What I do realise is that women must stick together -- one should, in an emergency, stand by one's own sex.

I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth

I kampen mellan dig och världen, ställ dig på världens sida.

Il pericolo era grande, ma eravamo pronti a rischiare e nascondemmo il bambino dentro una cassa. Di notte toglievamo il coperchio per dargli da bere e da mangiare. Durante quell'autunno il pensiero di avere un bambino nella baracca cambiò la nostra vita: facevamo a gara a chi gli avrebbe dato la propria razione. Ciascuno di noi lottava per offrirgliela.

But in today's world a separatist option does not exist; a version of this common ground is where we all, finally, must live if we are to live at all. And yet the loudest voices are the ones that deny its very existence...