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Quotes About Solidarity

If you're in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help—the only ones.
~ John Steinbeck
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up.' 1 That's part of her.
~ John Steinbeck
You know how you feel about Sam an' all the guys that travel with you? Well, I feel that way about all the workin' stiffs in the country.
~ John Steinbeck
Then it don' matter. Then I'll be all aroun' in the dark. I'll be ever'where--wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an'-- I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the houses they build--why, I'll be there. See?
~ John Steinbeck
They had no argument, no system, nothing but their numbers and their needs.
~ John Steinbeck
a damn about us. We don't have to sit-in no bar room blowin' in our jack jus' because we got no place else to go. If them other guys gets in jail they can rot for all anybody gives a damn. But not us." Lennie broke in. "But not us! An' why? Because . . . . because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why." He laughed delightedly. "Go on now, George!
~ John Steinbeck
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need — go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help — the only ones.
~ John Steinbeck
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
~ John Steinbeck
A company of believers is like a prison full of criminals; their intimacy and solidarity is based on what they can least justify about themselves.
~ John Updike
There's a prison there, too, which always makes me feel included.
~ John Waters
The Star of the Team Is the Team.
~ John Wooden
For the strength of the pack is the wolf; and the strength of the wolf is the pack." —Rudyard Kipling
~ John Wooden
Stand firm on the solid rock!
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.
~ Khalil Gibran
The whole world is one family.
~ Sun Yat-sen
The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle.
~ Shane Claiborne
World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.
~ Ann Curry
The whole world is my family.
~ Pope John XXIII
We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
~ Unknown
The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.
~ Unknown
Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.
~ Kola Boof
We are an American family and we rise and fall together as one nation.
~ Barack Obama
The peoples of the earth are one family.
~ Ruth Benedict