Quotes About Solidarity

Oh, working man! Oh, starved, outraged, and robbed laborer, how long will you lend attentive ear to the authors of your misery?

It is the moving inspiration of our age, the only question worth struggling for: the question of how to lift humanity from poverty and despair.

A reduction of the hours of labor to the point where all can have employment is worth a General Strike, because upon this point all efforts can be focused, and if carried, its beneficial effects would be felt immediately by the whole working class, men, women and children.

It is by the press we educate the public mind and link the people of most distant parts together in bonds of fraternity and comradeship. We can keep track of the work and accomplishments of our comrades in no other way, except by the medium of paper.

Ma conception de la grève du futur ne consiste pas à faire la grève et se laisser mourir de faim, mais de faire la grève et s'approprier la production

If the great body of the people have clamored for our comrades' blood, it was because they believed what the lying monopolistic press has said.

a "strike," which means a resistance on the part of the oppressed toward the oppressor—a protest, as it were

Give them to understand that you will not stand patiently by and see your hard earnings squandered by a luxuriating class of idlers.

There is a fire raging, and we have two choices: we can turn our backs, or we can try to fight it. Yes, talking about racism is hard to do, and yes, we stumble over the words - but we who are white need to have this discussion among ourselves. Because then, even more of us will overhear, and - I hope - the conversation will spread.

the way to pull a divided group together is to give them a common enemy.

we have more in common than we have differences.

Put ten people together in a Laundromat and chances are you won't be the one who's worst off.

The gruff, gold-hearted Brooklyn guys who won't hesitate to help someone out. The way New Yorkers pull together when they need to.

Yeah, things are better for blacks and women and gays, but it was the blacks and women and gays that did it, not fuck-ups like this bunch. Whites and straights came along to give help, all right, after the blacks said 'enough' and got their heads busted, and it's the same for the gays and the women. The whites and straights, they control things, and they could have changed it anytime.

seemed everyone

A true friend is a foxhole friend.

Astonishing how everyone is willing to go abroad to fight for the rights of foreigners while having such little concern for those of their own countrymen at home.

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

Christian reached out and grabbed his hand and Help pulled him out of the mucky mire (He brought me up also out of the pit of hopelessness, out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and straightened my steps. – Psalm 40:2), and set him upon solid ground.

The happiest day of your life will be the day when you realize "we" really is the most important word in the English language.

Remember, none of us is as smart as all of us.

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without people working together.

Once you realize you're not the only one going through this, then you'll remember to stay strong!

Until we learn to work together we'll suffer forever!