Quotes About Solidarity

Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.

During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.

Whatever happens to us, however unjustified, will be slight compared to what has happened already to the Vietnamese people, to the Black people in this country, to the criminals with whom we are now spending our days in the Cook County jail.

The promotion of international tolerance, reconciliation and education for which we must work are, in my view, of paramount importance in order to build a balanced world showing solidarity.

I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

L'humanité souffre. Et je souffre avec elle.

It's an impossible situation. We need to stick together in the face of this rampant affirmative action that lauds skin color over experience.

Murphy, you rock! Go team Dresden! Hey, I'm the one who rocks... Go team Murphy.

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

It has become a custom among the Legions to promise one's fellows that no matter what happens, they will never lie cold upon the earth.

It seemed like people could go one of two ways: Either freak out and start rioting, or they actually act like human beings in trouble out to, and look out for one another. When LA blacked out, there had been big time rioting. In New York, people had pulled together.

Mess with one of us, and you mess with all of us. If they voted me out, that aegis would be gone.

The creation of the community encourages investment in that community," I said. "Once they've invested, they'll fight to protect it.

I'm not saying pain is what defines us as human beings. But it is, in many ways, what unites us. We all recognize other people in pain.

They placed their lives on hold for a group of strangers and asked for nothing in return. They affirmed the basic goodness of man at a time when it was easy to doubt such humanity still existed. If the terrorists had hoped their attacks would reveal the weaknesses in western society, the events in Gander proved its strength.

There was no hatred. No anger. No fear in Gander. Only the spirit of community. Here, everyone was equal, everyone was treated the same. Here, the basic humanity of man wasn't just surviving but thriving

We're all Americans tonight.

Paul was a strong person in every respect and it made us all feel much better that he was there.

Huey Newton laid down his life for us," Stokely Carmichael had said the same night. But of course Huey Newton had not yet laid down his life at all, was just here in the Alameda County Jail waiting to be tried

one of the promises we make to one another is that we will try to retrieve our casualties

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Everyone was important during the war. Everyone. We worked together and we won.

The grandeur of a profession is...above all, uniting men: there is only one true luxury, that of human relationships.

Competition is not about fighting, it is all about helping each other to achieve a common goal.