Quotes About Solidarity

No,nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.

Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.

Why did she want to go to sea and live the rough unglamorous life of a seaman? 'Because they told me Negro women couldn't get in the union. You know what I told them?' I shook my head, although I nearly knew. 'I told them, "You want to bet?" I'll put my foot in that door up to my hip until women of every color can walk over my foot, get in that union, get aboard a ship and go to sea.

I believe that there lives a burning desire in the most sequestered private heart of every American, a desire to belong to a great counter.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.

Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Whatever was given by Black peple to other Blacks was most probably needed as desperately by the donor as by the receiver. A fact which made the giving or receiving a rich exchange.

I come as one but I stand as ten thousand.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived? I believe so.

A good friend will bail you out when you land in jail, but a very good friend will be sitting beside you in that jail cell.

Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.

Man, was he going to get shit for throwing in with the women, but hell, ask him if he gave a fuck.

Cathy sent him a glare over her shoulder and sniffed disdainfully. "Women have to stick together. You couldn't possibly understand the girlfriends' code. A good friend will bail you out when you land in jail, but a very good friend will be sitting beside you in that jail cell.

We're artists, Jo. We have to help one another in our hours of need, not tear each other down.

Elevating such extraordinary figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and concentrating on their accomplishments to the exclusion of the foot soldiers who sustained the Civil Rights Movement, for example, implies that only a few people are called to change the world, especially within low-income and/or nonwhite communities, and that everyone else might as well stand aside.

The lesson, my son, is that we alone, no matter how skilled or smart or how rich, are but spokes and cannot move the wheel alone, only together can we do that.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because were all one world.

I think the difference is not in the man, but how many stand behind him. I think that change will truly come when their combined fists are bigger than a single mighty one.

The lives of the Outer Dwellers had become almost normal again. Bitterness was their bread and rivalry their wine.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.