Quotes About Solidarity

You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism." - Steven Biko

Boycott is a widely understood form of social, economic, and political action.

Dr. Paul Farmer said it best: "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world." Esther helped us see the truth in that statement.

Here's to us. Who's like us? Damn few.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

The Pack is gathering. There can be no culls among us.

I think that we are all deeply, deeply committed to the liberation of black people. And so, when you put people together who have and share that commitment, the sky is the limit.

I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great.

I judge people, and myself, when you are up against it. When you've been beaten like that you have to find out who is alongside you, you roll your sleeves and come out fighting and those are my principles.

It's going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

The good thing is that people have slowly started helping each other and not shunning Corona patients to a corner.

The world has only one border. It is called humanity. The differences between us are small compared to our shared humanity. Put humans first.

Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.

We can't leave small business owners to fend for themselves.

Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

The black community is under attack in so many different ways.

In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

To know that so many people have our backs and support us is an awesome thing. You need people saying, 'Hey man, I'm with you all the way.'