Quotes About Solidarity

Women--wives and mothers--are the same everywhere.

I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

If we can let ourselves, all of us, be united by the simple fact of having a difference, we will be bigger and stronger and more powerful than anyone who might otherwise make us feel small.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

with each measured step, we knowthis earth is only as solidas we are.

The truth is, there are not two kinds of people. There's only one: the kind that loves to divide up into gangs who hate each other's guts.

Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, & work together against those that choose to destroy it.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.

When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.