Quotes About Solidarity

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

In the words of William McKinley, Our flag has never waved over any community but in blessing.

But you must sacrifice your individuality,' Guy told her. 'It's nothing but egoism. You must unite with other right-thinking, self-abnegating people – then you can achieve anything.' The idea filled her with gloom.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

felicitous intuition so prevalent in the bourgeoisies of non-Western countries, and most particularly Muslim countries, saw psychoanalysis as a "scientific sharing of confidences" invented for Westerners unaccustomed to the curative traditions of family solidarity and shared secrets.

Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

We are only human when we are part of a community. ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them. ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives.

Ender had come to feel a unity so strong that the word we came to his lips much more easily than I.

We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe.

We become one tribe because we 'say' we're one tribe.

It's like communes—people with nothing are always willing to share.

Je n'ai pas un amour particulier pour l' ouvrier idéalisé tel que se le représente l'esprit bourgeois du communiste, mais quand je vois un véritable ouvrier en chair et en os en conflit avec son ennemi naturel, l'agent de police, je n'ai pas besoin de me demander de quel coté je suis.

Survival, in fact, is about the connection between things. [Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism]

The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom, The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but sharing of enemies.

Se vuoi aiutare chi è nei guai, devi andare dove stanno i guai. C'è poco da scegliere.

What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies. But if I was your enemy with whom would you have shared me? With whom?

What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

Justice is what Love looks like in public.

We are witnessing a rebellion. It's beautiful to see the qty of protests and the scope and breadth of all colors, all genders, all sexual orientations, all ethnicities and all religious identities in the USA.