Quotes About Solidarity

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Our way is unplanned and our path is unknown. Yet our journey is made whole when we travel as one

In the face of adversity, you must become a rock, unbending and absolutely impregnable.

Making hundred friends is not a miracle... The miracle is to make a single friend who will stand by your side even when hundreds are against you.

Just remember that when nobody was there for you, I WAS. And when nobody else gave a damn, I DID.

Being there for someone is very gratifying. I enjoy being so many people's rock.

Making a million friends is not a miracle, the miracle is to make a friend who will stand by you when millions are against you.

It is quite likely that this Jewish community, like any other, perhaps more than any other, could boast of many charms, qualities, and virtues. The enjoyment of these, however, was restricted to its members. The fact was they were disliked; and this, once they became aware of it, became a proof in their eyes of anti-Semitism, against which they ranged themselves in a dense phalanx, closing ranks in the face of a world that was, in any case, of no mind to join their group.

Women among women know how not to feel alone.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.

Africa for the Africans... at home and abroad!

One God, One Aim, One Destiny. (Motto of the UNIA)

Africans are raising the cry of "AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS", those at home and those abroad.

great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

There aren't many degrees of separation between any of the 2.4 million men and women who've served in Iraq or Afghanistan. We've smelled the shitty air in Iraq and felt our lungs burn in the Hindu Kush. We've squeezed ourselves into Humvees and Black Hawks and been shot at. We've been stuck in slowly moving convoys, more than a little worried about what the next bump in the road will trigger.

The worse things get, the more you know you can count on men like that to always have your back. If you really want to know if someone is a true friend, get yourself into a tight spot with him or her, everyone has plenty of friends when things are good, but friendship is forged in moments of chaos.

In death, as in life, we stand together, always a family, always a team. The brotherhood never dies.

They have a proverb that says a lot: I against my brothers; my brothers and I against my cousins; my brothers, my cousins, and I against the world.

Same blood, different mud.

A small minority of human beings now possesses a massive advantage. How can men and women on both sides of this divide live together, work together, form a single, more perfect union?

First they came for the revolutionaries, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a revolutionary. Then they came for the intellectuals, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an intellectual. Then they came for the tier ones, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a tier one. Then they came for the brilliants, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a brilliant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.