Quotes About Solidarity

I love the people of Venezuela. I want that country to have freedom. I want it to have human rights and to be banned by a dictator like Nicolas Maduro is, to me, a badge of honor.

I want families to come together, and on the corporate side, I want you to know that there are men out here who stand for righteousness.

Come a crisis, we want other people.

What most people want, I guess? I want the individual to know that if we unite, we are not powerless.

If everyone who wants to see an end to poverty, hunger and suffering speaks out, then the noise will be deafening.

Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

To the joy and the life in the eyes of my friend, I will fight all those who deem him their enemy.

Sunrise smiled to himself at hearing Sweetlard try out that Malazan way of talking. 'Aye.' It's a good word, I think. More a whole attitude than a word, really. With lots of meaning in it, too. A bit of 'yes' and a bit of 'well, fuck' and maybe some 'we're all in this mess together'. So, a word to sum up the Malazans. He uttered his own sigh and settled his head back. 'Aye,' he said.

No soul deserved to stand alone

We are the Hust Legion!' 'Indeed,' said Dathenar. 'And as it stands, lieutenant, we are also, to not put too fine a point on it, royally fucked.

Sex is the glue that holds society together.

nothing cements a friendship like hating the same person.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

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.

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

At that moment, I was glad to have fellow rational beings with me, whatever their age and experience.

We may not be big but we're small!

It was in '35—we had this campaign to raise a million tax dollars. In the town of Phillips, one evening, during a blizzard, I was met by a crowd of miners. They were given the day off and a stake to attend this meeting. They surrounded me and said this tax would cost six hundred of them their jobs. They were busted farmers and fortunately found a job in these Home Stake mines. I went back home feeling worried. But the tax was passed, and not a single miner lost his job.

As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal,… a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

We were born between blood and gunpowder; and between blood and gunpowder we were raised. Every so often the powerful from other lands came to rob us of tomorrow. For this reason it was written in a war song that unites us: "If a foreigner with his step ever dares to profane your land, think, Oh beloved motherland, that heaven gave you a soldier in each son." For this reason we fought. With flags and different languages the foreigner came to conquer us. He came and he went.

solid because the bees inside

The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit… they are just a heap of loose sand…. Other men are the carving knife and serving dish; we are the fish and the meat.

Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.

Social change comes through people.