Quotes About Solidarity

Hunger is a deep concern of mine, and I feel that no one should go without food in this world as long as there are caring people to lend a hand. I've had to struggle in my past and I know what it's like to go without, so I try to do as much as I can to help bring awareness to an issue that hits very close to home for me.

When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.

The peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America have common interest and are in the position to support each other in their anti-imperialist and anti-U.S. struggle. As long as Africa and Latin America are not free.

We have been helping, trying to help Afghanistan in many ways, even from the beginning of... the beginnings of the '20s, 1920s, when he we were fighting our own national struggle.

Whatever struggle happened between brothers, let us forget about it and turn the page forever and live united.

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

We must see others' struggles as our own, and their success as our success, so we can speak to our common humanity.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Black women have to know the historical and everyday struggles of black men, and our men have to know the struggles of black women in America.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

I was functioning in a time when people were struggling, and they knew they had to struggle, and I was a part of that struggle. It wasn't just women.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

We need to tell the American public the truth. We need to let them know they're not the only ones struggling.

We should be working with our European allies, not turning them into opponents.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.

It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

There can be people who are feminist, and people who hold the completely opposite view but are still feminists. It seems to me from the outside that there's a lot of people busy fighting each other rather than working toward their goals. It's a shame.

Antiracism is direct opposition to any idea that supposes one race is better than any other in any respect.

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

An oppressed people will always rise.

Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront.

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.