Quotes About Solidarity

Stallman issued a manifesto: "I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way. . . . Once GNU is written, everyone will be able to obtain good system software free, just like air."123

When Marian Anderson, the black contralto, came to Princeton for a concert in 1937, the Nassau Inn refused her a room. So Einstein invited her to stay at his house on Mercer Street, in what was a deeply personal as well as a publicly symbolic gesture. Two

At the official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. There must be no pulling different ways, he declared. We must all hang together. According to the early American historian Jared Sparks, Franklin replied, Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

my relationship with the Jewish people became my strongest human tie once I achieved complete clarity about our precarious position among the nations of the world.

I wanted to say to the little white man, "Listen, brother, we're not enemies. I just want to go up in an elevator like anybody else. You don't need to worry about me. It's the men that own this building that are making you poor and uneducated and angry.

The black intellectual, the black academic, must attach himself to the activity of the black masses.

All white people are enemies until proved otherwise, and this applies to black intellectuals, all of us are enemies to the people until we prove otherwise.

We have nothing to lose, for they are the capitalists. Black people could not hope to, nor do they want to, dominate the whites, but large sections of the black youth realise that they cannot shrink from fighting to demonstrate the hard way that a 10 per cent minority of 22 million cannot be treated as though they do not exist.

No word of commiseration can make a burden feel one feather's weight lighter to the slave who must carry it.

with others, are likely to experience such a year.

collaboration, not competition.

you're a member of the human race, not a sub-group. Here, you're a nation of the world with a global awareness, rather than a patriot of any one country.

May 4, 1970—the same day as the horror show at Kent State University in Ohio, where four students were killed

No man will ever be whole and dignified and free except in the knowledge that the men around him are whole and dignified and free, and that the world itself is free of contempt and misuse.

The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't.

The irony is, if we divide ourselves for our own comfort, no one will have comfort.

On the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz, mourning dead Jews is easy. And, forgive me, cheap. Want to truly honor the dead? Show solidarity with the living—Israel and its six million Jews. Make "never again" more than an empty phrase. It took Nazi Germany seven years to kill six million Jews. It would take a nuclear Iran one day.

Australia is the only country that has fought with the United States in every one of its major conflicts since 1914, the good and the bad, the winning and the losing.

By 1870, most white men in that part of the country either belonged to the organization or sympathized with it.

We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called 'hopelessness.' It's carried on the air around here, and I am fighting it." My

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.