Quotes About Solidarity

Carry on, my sisters.

Only women hearing each other can create a counterworld to the prevailing reality.

Solidarity is identifying with one another without feeling like you have to agree on every issue. It's unity, not uniformity. It's listening without rushing in to fix the problem. It's going deeper than typical ways of talking and sharing—going down to the place where souls meet and love comes, where separateness drops away and you know these women because you are these women.

Being divided into groups and ranked in hierarchies—that was what they knew. An individual action was unthinkable. Group spirit dominated everything. Even when they were competing, they looked out for one another.

The host thus forming a single united body, is it impossible either for the brave to advance alone, or for the cowardly to retreat alone

Every kingdom divided against itself is laid to waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand

When the men are united, the brave will not advance alone, nor will the cowardly retreat.

General Grant is a great general," he said. "I know him well. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always.

I have a message for president snow, you can bomb us but if we burn, you burn with us!

We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. FDR to Fraces Perkins quoted in Furious Improvisations: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desparate Times by Susan Quinn

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

I am tired. I would like to be a mountain, a tree, a stone.

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to care more.

and, whatever the jealousies and grievances from the past that have made us wary and cranky with each other, when something like this happens (the sky is falling, the sky is falling!) you understand what's really important.

one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer—and the other seven will know her.

Drink your coffee -- people in Africa are sleeping.

Everything a gay man does makes a political statement. Everything matters: where you bank, where you shop, where you eat. When you hold your lover's hand in public

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Am I not a man and a brother?

Now in speaking like this, it doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. And if the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us.

weary soldiers who went through a war together, side by

Like you're out in the ocean and the undertow catches you and you start yelling for help, but then you look around, and all around you in the water for as far as you can see, there's all these other people flailing too.

Pude leer en el aeropuerto dos graffiti contradictorios: "Que el último en irse apague la luz". Y el otro rogaba: "No te vayas, hermano".

Como dice mi hermano Miguel Ángel, o follamos todos o la puta al río.