Quotes About Solidarity

Oftentimes the faith community historically has been on the wrong side, particularly as it relates to indigenous communities and sovereign nations who we are in relationship with. Today we decided to be on the right side.

Reconciliation and social justice are two sides of the same coin.

It was as if solidarity with them– with people– was pushing me toward the edge, and I could be with them only by falling.

We don't believe in a world of us versus them; we look at the world as all of us together.

I think where Trump just has it dead wrong is this is a world of us versus them.

This is not about race or affiliation, and it isn't about black versus blue. All lives matter.

The fight still isn't people of colour versus white. It's the people versus the system built to keep us down. That's the first line of the Constitution. And the system is manmade but is made of no man. Everyone, regardless of class, creed, culture and ethnicity can fight the system and help to break it down.

It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

It feels very cool to be part of a girl gang.

I've fought to close the gender and racial pay gap for a very long time. One piece of advice I like to give whenever I'm speaking on the subject: if you want equal pay, join a union! I've never seen a union contract that pays women 79 cents to a man's dollar.

I think women have not been terribly kind to other women for a very long time.

I think for guys - you're going to have some people that are willing to be on the front line. You think of guys like Malcolm Jenkins, Demario Davis - guys that are willing to speak up and say, 'Hey, there's a problem, and I want to help change, and I want to be a vessel to keep this thing moving and see change.'

Everyone should help women. Everyone has a vested interest.

When you say 'never forget' to a veteran, you are implying that, as an American, you are in it with them.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

I want you to say 'Never Forget' because when you say 'Never Forget' you're thanking that veteran in a different way. You're allowing them to be thankful for the idea for the fact that as an American you're in it with them. We're in it together and we don't forget together.

One of the things that ties people together, whether they live in a rural or urban area, is the really big number of people who have served in the military. Veterans issues are very important in the district.

We've got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included.

Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing people to stick their hands in the cookie jar. Create opportunities for people who live in poverty to elevate themselves out of poverty with a hand up, not a hand out. That's what being a Democrat is!

Our veterans, and especially our women veterans, need our support and the support of one another.

I am so proud that as a state we can stand up together and show our support of veterans.

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged.

The end goal is to make a piece that everybody has ownership over and everybody's proud of because everybody contributed to it. I think there's a communist, socialist vibe to 'Portlandia' to make it work.