Quotes About Solidarity

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuelan Haiti and Cuba.

While there is a lower class I am in it; while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

Everyone pushes a falling fence

We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

Our history suggests that women will continue to show the world how to be friends.

Es war nicht Backstein und Beton, die aus diesem Gebäude ein Zuhause machten, es war das Netz der Menschen und dieses komische Wort, das die laute Gladys auf ein Stück Stoff gestickt hatte: GEMEINSINN.

El buen compañerismo consiste muchas veces en callar, en respetar el laconismo del otro, en comprender que eso es lo que el otro necesita en esa precisa y oscura jornada, y entonces arroparlo con nuestro silencio, o dejar que él nos arrope con el suyo, pero, y este pero es fundamental, sin que ninguno de los dos lo pida ni lo exija, sino que el otro lo comprenda por sí mismo, en una espontánea solidaridad.

Lo esencial no es el defecto individual, sino la voluntad colectiva.

We must make the American people hear our Tale of Two Cities. We must convince them that we don't have to settle for two cities, that we can have one city, indivisible, shining for all of its people.

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.

But wouldn't [the Spice Girls] have shown a little bit more solidarity if they had at least called themselves feminists? The feminist activist Jennifer Pozner was more dismissive,writing that it was "probably a fair assumption to say that 'zigazig-ha' is not Spice shorthand for 'subvert the dominant paradigm.

We're all the same inside the cage. When they put the collars on us.

No one gets left behind, you know that.

And I understand my sisters when they say every woman has a story that's been told a maxim of one soul, maybe less And that is why you'll never hear me call a woman slut, bitch or a dyke, No matter what she does, because I do not blame her I blame the men who have emotionally and physically raped her, I blame these corporations whose images tell them they hate her, And I put my arms on her shoulder and tell her how great to life and to God that SHE created her

Children walking out on strike from textile mills in New Jersey in the 1840s, shoemakers doing the same in New England, the Black Panthers and other dissidents of color challenging white supremacist exploitation in the 1960s and 1970s—for all their differences, these share in being viewed and treated as "social dynamite.

To live protected within any version of a gated community diminishes me; it is an affront to my dignity as a person. It is to live as a parasite, and so clothes my everyday living in structural violence.

Violated peoples do not forget. They dream alternatives and organize against overwhelming power. In the U.S., organized and creative resistance has an equally long history. In

People today are lifting up their cries and forging new actions from an oppressive regime in our day. At

If Christians do not act on a solidarity with criminalized populations, locked-down communities, and with others suffering extrajudicial and judicial violence, they themselves, along with many other citizens who think themselves free from the criminal justice system's negative effects, may find themselves easily caught up in the indignities of today's punishment regime, if they are not already.

We're all Americans and we owe that to each other. That's what liberalism means.