Quotes About Solidarity

Ridiculing the high achievers is a way of regaining a sense of dignity and power in the face of their own disappointment and resentment.… When black students disproportionately experience low achievement in the context of disproportionate white high achievement, some emphasize their black authenticity, seeking dignity in racial solidarity."40

As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, we are caught in a "network of mutuality," and that means our collective fate is intertwined. We will thrive or fail together.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more than having affairs with our wives." ? Bill Clinton

For months in the fall of 2001, our highways looked like a county fair on wheels. Look out, Al-Qaeda---patriot on board! I once saw a guy with five flags tell a guy with four flags to go back to Afghanistan.

Show me a man, any man, he is my brother. Show me a bigot, any bigot, he is my enemy.

Tony kept my job open. He offered to backstop me with the money I needed. But it was the way he did it I'll never forget, with love and respect, like a human being holding out his hand to someone who needed it.

Benjamin Franklin once offered advice to his fellow revolutionaries: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

I'm just average, common too. I'm just like him and the same as you. I'm everybody's brother and son. I'm no different than anyone. Bob Dylan - Talking WWIII Blues

Pompeo said it was turning in a direction that was perilous for the republic. "We've got to stand shoulder to shoulder," Pompeo said. "We're the last of the Mohicans.

A smart girl is confident, and confident girls are pretty and powerful. And when you get a group of pretty powerful girls together, they're unstoppable.

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

When you speak your mind—and speak for those who need help—there's no more powerful way to be heard.

He then ended his address by quoting Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." It was one of Porter's best speeches

But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.

Friend John, there are strange and terrible days before us. Let us not be two, but one, that so we work to a good end. Will you not have faith in me?

Chicks before dicks, and all that.

El suelo parecía maravillosamente sólido. Era consolador saber que me había caído y que no podía caer más abajo.

This is no time for the private point of view. (from 'Candles')

The power of the wolf is in the pack; the power of the pack is in the wolf

why do we huddle together In a horrid amity of misfortune? why should we be implicated, brought in and brought together?

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.