Quotes About Solidarity

the worst sin in the world is when the poor try to rob the poor. the enemy is fairly obvious, why weaken our ranks?

Before, they wouldn't speak to each other. Now they were mobilized. The Tribe was in danger.

Being a common laborer all my life at poor and underpaid jobs, I had worked with more black men, known more black men, drank with more black men, fought with more black men than any theoretical liberal with books jammed between the ears.

It's like a code, you know, a code of courtesy…because if the poor aren't decent to one another nobody else is going to be.

That one's as much Master as another, and since Men are all made of the same Clay there should be no Distinction or Superiority among them. [Emphasis

I no longer want a monastery which is too secure, I want a small monastery, like the house of a poor workman who is not sure if tomorrow he will find work and bread, who with all his being shares the suffering of the world.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

A warrior did not walk away from a wounded friend.

Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward.

villages that their leaders came together to save themselves.

But let the slave who sees another cast into a shallow grave know that he will be buried in the same way when his day comes.

Just remember,' a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel told me as he strapped his pistol belt under his arm before we crossed into Kuwait, 'that none of these boys is fighting for home, for the flag, for all that crap the politicians feed the public. They are fighting for each other, just for each other.

Divisions among the oppressed, Hasan said, are gifts to the oppressor.

Those who resist refuse to kneel before the idols of mass culture and the power elites. They are not trying to get rich. They do not want to be part of the inner circle of the powerful. They accept that when you stand with the oppressed you are treated like the oppressed.

As long as the powers that be are in control, the oppression isn't going to go anywhere," he said. "It's really going to take people to unite worldwide, not just in America, not just in St. Louis, not just in one particular city or state. It's gonna have to be people identifying their struggles with each other worldwide, internationally, and say enough is enough. That's the only way oppression will ever leave.

Capitalist states seek to keep workers unconscious, Gramsci wrote, because no worker under a capitalist system will ever receive the full amount for his or her labor. This would destroy capitalism. Any worker who truly understood his or her interests would be dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism.

We are a people who can bring about miracles if united.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

You know, we're missing so much as African-Americans and we should be concerned about what's going on in Africa.

Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always four or five.

Seeing someone go down, you don't ever want to see anyone getting carried off on a stretcher or you don't want to see anyone missing a day or another game.

We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.