Quotes About Solidarity

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

New York is such a super power, New York can do anything, you know what I mean? They could do anything! When New Yorkers band together, they can really change the world.

With all the fighting we do and all the skirmishing we do, the reality is that New Yorkers can come together when they have to.

If a woman is saying something out loud, she is asking for help, and you have no business to character assassinating her. You have to reach out to her and help her and protect her, and I think we need to protect our women, and we need to protect our children.

No country by itself and in an isolated manner would ever be able to effectively address the challenges it faces.

I have no desire to go to work and not work with my friends.

There was always a real camaraderie with No Doubt. It was always more than the music.

I think we all realize that, if anyone left, it wouldn't be No Doubt.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

There is no future without all of us - black, brown and white - coming together.

Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.

This country is a land mass that could be called anything, and for people to act like this is some kind of sacred territory is an insanity. It's just a bunch of people trying to live together, and if we're not going to be part of a dream of equality--a part of a dream of that which is the best of us, the idea that people help one another--if we're not going to do that, then this land mass doesn't any more deserve to be revered than anything else.

We in the Black Arts movement, which wasn't really a movement but a group of people who had similar objectives...

If I deal with my block and you deal with your block, we'll have two good blocks.

We need to watch For the scared and the vulnerable One day it may be Us

I have instant compassion for men as equal human beings. Equally beaten down by the patriarchy and equally lost and wandering. At least women get to hug each other.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: "You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.

So we know that human nature, and that includes our nature, yours and mine, can very easily turn people into quite efficient torturers and mass-murderers and slave-drivers...To the extent that the statement is true, and there is such an extent, it's just not relevant: human nature also has the capacity to lead to selflessness, and cooperation, and sacrifice, and support, and solidarity, and tremendous courage, and lots of other things too.

Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war

Rand Paul...said national health insurance is slavery. He said, I'm a physician, and if there's national health insurance, the government is forcing me to take care of somebody who is ill. Why should I be a slave to the state? Here we're getting capitalist pathology in its most extreme, lunatic form. It is the opposite of solidarity, mutual support, mutual help.

but unless Western populations can rise to the level of Egyptians they're going to remain victims.

There are major efforts to replace public schools with semi-privatized systems that would still be supported by the public but run more or less privately, such as charter schools. There is no evidence that they are any better. For all we know, they're even worse. But this privatization of schools does undermine solidarity and mutual support--dangerous ideas that harm concentrated power.

Anarchism is necessarily anti-capitalist in that it "opposes the exploitation of man by man.