Quotes About Solidarity

Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.

We are all we got in this world why not help each other.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

I ain't going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin' us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin' now is Black Power!

The big deal is we think the power is in us individuallythe power is in us collectively. It is in the church.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.

Black Power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

True leadership is when you are willing to risk your power and voice so that all of ours can be heard.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

We firmly believe in the power of unity and feel that it is easier to get pass hardships and challenges as a team. This gels us and keeps us strong.

A conference is just an admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles.

In the neutral zone, be wary of any arrangement or activity that shows a preference for one group over others. During this middle phase of transition, people want to feel that "we are all in this boat together"—another good metaphor. They will put up with a lot of discomfort if everyone must do so as well.

Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

In a way, they weren't that different from the kids at Lincoln School, who'd been thrown together with almost nothing. But Lincoln School had been overseen by the likes of DiMarco and the Black Witch and her lizard-on-two-legs husband, and fear had been what we'd all shared the most. With the crusade, the spirit of Sister Eve ran through everything, and that made all the difference.

Make friends, because come a hurricane, you're going to need them