Quotes About Solidarity

We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot.

Não aguento mais a passividade dos homens bons. Cadê vocês, merda? Vocês vivem com a gente, transam com a gente, nos têm como filhas, amigas, irmãs, são nutridos, criados e eternamente amados por nós, e como não lutam do nosso lado? Por que não vão à loucura e tomam uma atitude contra nosso estupro e nossa humilhação?

We don't accept your world your rules your wars We don't accept your cruelty and unkindness. We don't believe some need to suffer for others to survive or that there isn't enough to go around or that corporations are the only and best economic arrangement. And

não há nada mais poderoso que a solidariedade global, que nos traz uma segurança coletiva para que continuemos nos expressado e uma coragem ainda maior naquilo que queremos realizar.

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you? You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren't you standing with us? Why aren't you driven to madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Ogni mattina con la precisione delle sei ruote alla stessa ora e allo stesso minuto, noi, milioni, ci alziamo come un essere solo. Alla stessa unica ora, milioni in uno cominciamo il lavoro e milioni in uno lo terminiamo [...].

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger.

In death, all men are brothers. -Istak

We will love her, protect her, all of us--Bisaya, Tagalog, Ilokano, so many islands, so many tribes--because if we act as one, we will be strong and so will she be. Alone you will fall prey to every marauder that passes by. I am not asking that you love Filipinas. I am asking that you do what is right, what is duty..." -The Cripple

If we could only learn to trust one another--Tagalogs trusting Ilokanos, Pampangos trusting Tagalogs. -The Cripple

Of the Bagos:] Like the Moros in the south, they are our brothers. We must recognize their belongingness to Filipinas, their willingness to fight for her. -The Cripple

How can we build trust among our own people? How can we make them confident of themselves and their countrymen so that they will not sell their souls for a few silver dollars? -The Cripple

I knew long ago that their blood is the same as mine. No stranger can come battering down my door and say he brings me light. This I have within me.

You cannot ask the poor for sacrifices," I said. "We are already poor. What can we give? How do you measure the patriotism of the poor?

Blood brothers in desperation Oath of silence for the voice of a generation

I'll braid you one.

Siempre estaré del lado de aquellos que no tienen nada y que ni siquiera pueden disfrutar de nada de lo que tienen en paz.

With the support of leftist intellectuals and the Catholic Church, the MST has become much more than a movement of the poor. It boasts 1.5 million members, including television stars, samba singers, and other celebrities at home and abroad.

Qué es! ¡Qué és! ¡Qué es! Se ve. Se siente. El pueblo está presente.

We are not only a Latin-American nation; we are an Afro-American nation also.

When men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can keep them isolated: neither walls of prisons nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity, will sustain them all.

Two things struck me about this strange group over which Tito presided with a kind of amused benevolence; first their complete devotion to the Old Man, as they called him, and secondly the fact that all of them... had been with him in the woods from the early days of the resistance, sharing with him hardships and dangers, setbacks and successes. This common experience had overcome all differences of class or race or temperament and forged between them lasting bonds of loyalty and affection.

And because we do not ask so much at the hands of the law, because we only ask it for justice, it supposes that we reject fraternity, solidarity, organization, and association; and they brand us with the name of individualists. We