Quotes About Solidarity

As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

If there's someone getting picked on, be nice to them and be helpful to them.

In Greece, the picket line is forbidden.

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.

Women should get together and become the pillars of support for each other.

I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.

We need new voices, new people, new activists and new ideologies in the piracy scene.

It's really hard to have your voice heard in a man's world. People are always comparing women and bringing them down - that, I'm completely against. We have an obligation as women to not pit ourselves against each other, because men are going to do it for us.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

Napoli fans saw themselves in me. I knew I was not alone when entering the pitch, but I was there with a whole city.

The way I see it, if you climb the wall, you reach back down and help the next one up.

Since the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement, CODEPINK activists have joined the frontlines of the non-violent Occupy movement across the country.

I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

A wonderful innovation of the Occupy Wall Street movement was the use of the human microphone - the name given to the body of the audience repeating, amplifying, each statement made by the speaker.

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.

I hope we build a son who's strong enough to stand up for other people. And if Donald Trump is out there teaching folks how to build walls, we're hoping to instil in our son the ability to know how to take them down.

Americans are at our best when we build bridges between us, not walls around us.

I truly believe that building bridges, not building walls and not giving into fear, will make our communities better.

We should always be trying to tear down the walls and say, 'I'm no different than you.'