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Quotes About Solidarity

Though the poor were just as afraid as the rich, and valued their lives just as much, they were more sheeplike: they needed each other, needed to link arms, to groan or laugh together. Day was breaking. A silvery blue light slid over the cobblestones, over the parapets along the quayside, over the towers of Notre-Dame.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
laughter was about more than humour. This was about reducing tension, solidarity in face of the grim reaper.
~ Irvine Welsh
Give us but the chance and a new generation of Earthmen would grow to maturity, lacking insularity and believing wholeheartedly in the oneness of Man.
~ Isaac Asimov
The men in this station survive by virtue of their jellyfish quality. There isn't one who would stand against him. Trying to rally the others to put pressure on Hallam would be like asking strands of cooked spaghetti to come to attention.
~ Isaac Asimov
A real friend is a friend in need, not those who wait until your luck changes.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
If for any reason you don't like the word feminist, look for another word. The name is not important as long as the work gets done for yourself and for your sisters in the rest of the world who need it.
~ Isabel Allende
I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
~ Isabel Allende
The rural women taught me that courage is contagious and that there's strength in numbers; what you can't do on your own can be achieved together, the more the better.
~ Isabel Allende
No creas que eres alguien especial o mejor que los otros, acuérdate de que al clavo más prominente le cae el martillazo».
~ Isabel Allende
Esas mujeres del campo me enseñaron que el coraje es contagioso y que la fuerza está en el número; lo que no se logra sola se consigue entre varias, y mientras más sean, mejor.
~ Isabel Allende
Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia»
~ Isabel Allende
La humanidad debe vivir en un mundo unido, donde se mezclen las razas, lenguas, costumbres y sueños de todos los hombres. El nacionalismo repugna a la razón. En nada beneficia a los pueblos. Sólo sirve para que en su nombre se cometan los peores abusos.
~ Isabel Allende
shared pain is more bearable.
~ Isabel Allende
Si me quieres escribir, / ya sabes mi paradero: / Tercera Brigada Mixta, / primera línea de fuego».
~ Isabel Allende
Nada puede detenernos si compartimos una visión del futuro y estamos decididas a hacerla realidad todas juntas.
~ Isabel Allende
Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia», le decía
~ Isabel Allende
because in essence they were sisters—as, finally, most women are.
~ Isabel Allende
In Chile, poverty and solidarity go hand in hand.
~ Isabel Allende
No me conviene salir de un capitalista para caer en otro. Lo que hay que hacer es una cooperativa y mandar a la madame al carajo. No ha oído hablar de eso? Váyase con cuidado, mire que si sus inquilinos le forman una cooperativa en el campo, usted se jodió. Lo que yo quiero es una cooperativa de putas. Pueden ser putas y maricones, para darle más amplitud al negocio. Nosotros ponemos todo, el capital y el trabajo. Para qué queremos un patrón?
~ Isabel Allende
Las miserias de la enfermedad nos igualan, no hay ricos ni pobres, al cruzar este umbral los privilegios se hacen humo y nos volvemos humildes. Mi
~ Isabel Allende
Ya no es necesario, podemos ejercer nuestro poder desde la feminidad. Como Eliza, adquirimos libertad y seguimos luchando para preservarla, ampliarla y lograr que alcance para todas.
~ Isabel Allende
The technique of "disappearing" ideological enemies, which several Latin American dictatorships were so strongly committed to during the seventies and eighties, had been practiced in Chile nearly a century earlier. None of which takes away from the fact that our democracy was the most solid, and the oldest, on the continent.
~ Isabel Allende
Al necesitado no se le pregunta quién es ni de dónde viene, Richard. Todos somos iguales en la desgracia.
~ Isabel Allende
Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have stood together in the long struggle for freedom for decades. We have a responsibility to the people of Hong Kong to support them as they struggle to maintain the freedom that was guaranteed to them by Beijing in 1984.
~ Erin O'Toole