Quotes About Solidarity

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

I do think people should be proud and supportive of their friends, in publishing and everywhere else.

The Latinas in this industry are really supportive and stick together. America Ferrera, Gina Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, and Salma Hayek have all reached out and have helped promote 'Vida,' and it's because they get it. They really are about opening doors. The more there are of us, the more of a movement it will be, and it won't be just tokens.

It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.

I feel like smaller countries, other countries, they cheer, they support their people no matter what. We need to get a little bit more supportive of our people.

Contrary to popular belief, actors are extremely supportive of each other.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

Mates are supposed to look after each other, right?

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

When white supremacy has you down, honey, go out dancing, have as much fun as you can.

When I'm around people having conversations about their day, I'm looking at them, like, 'What could they possibly be talking about? How are we not talking about deconstructing white supremacy right now? How are we not trying to save trans people?'

Labour's leadership must surely recognise that there is no socialism in going it alone.

Be able to see people's humanity. I think the way that you do that and see people for more than their surface value is, say, you're reading something in the news: the gender pay gap, or gay adoption, anything that involves a group of people being marginalized.

We need an attitude of defiance, not an attitude of cowardice. Out in the street, that's how we are winning against the TransCanada Pipeline. This is how we have delayed the Trans-Pacific Partnership and forced it into an election season, gotten everybody to stand against it. Democracy is not about surrender.

If you surrender to the communal vision, sometimes, certainly in our case, you become more than the sum of your parts.

Old enemies must be friends when a greater evil looms.

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

All the worst things that happened to other women because they were women could happen to you because you were a woman. Even if you weren't killed, something in you was, your sense of freedom, equality, confidence.

T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place of many movements of resistance, as many as there are sites of closure and exclusion. The resistance will be as transnational capitalism.

Like racism, misogyny can never be adequately addressed by its victims alone.

And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation.

I got something most women got, an experience of staring at women across a distance or being in worlds in which they barely existed, from Moby-Dick to Lord of the Rings. Being so often required to be someone else can stretch thin the sense of self. You should be yourself some of the time. You should be with people who are like you, who are facing what you're facing, who dream your dreams and fight your battles, who recognize you.