Quotes About Solidarity

You can't do it alone, that's the thing. You have to remember there are other people out there who have gone through it, who know what you're going through.

Let Southern oppressors tremble—let their secret abettors tremble—let their Northern apologists tremble—let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.

Liberty for each, for all, and forever!

The Union will awaken. It always has. We always will.

the things he hated most was élitism. We share in everyone else or forego ourselves. 'Hullo there, captain.

What we give to our community in pennies, our communities give back to us in dollars.

André Breton (who fled Nazi dominated Europe)told poets of this Caribbean country: 'Surrealism is allied with peoples of colour, first because it has sided with them against all forms of imperialism and white brigandage…

On much of the continent, it seems to me, solidarity, generosity, and resistance to every kind of personal confrontation, combined with a sense of being economically disinherited, all work together in financial matters

The revolution begins by asking: what sort of promises do free men and women make to one another, and how, by making them, do we begin to make another world?

The English word "free," for instance, is derived from a German root meaning "friend," since to be free meant to be able to make friends, to keep promises, to live within a community of equals.

Up in our country we are human!" said the hunter. "And since we are human we help each other. We don't like to hear anybody say thanks for that. What I get today you may get tomorrow. Up here we say that by gifts one makes slaves and by whips one makes dogs.

That's what anarchism is for me: a community of purpose without a community of definition.

from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs'.

If mutual aid, social co-operation, civic activism, hospitality or simply caring for others are the kind of things that really go to make civilizations, then this true history of civilization is only just starting to be written.

Others noted the 'Indian's' reluctance ever to let anyone fall into a condition of poverty, hunger or destitution. It was not so much that they feared poverty themselves, but rather that they found life infinitely more pleasant in a society where no one else was in a position of abject misery

Rather than seeing himself as human because he could make economic calculations, the hunter insisted that being truly human meant refusing to make such calculations, refusing to measure or remember who had given what to whom, for the precise reason that doing so would inevitably create a world where we began "comparing power with power, measuring, calculating" and reducing each other to slaves or dogs through debt.

Hai bisogno di uno con una mano grande così. [...] Uno che se ne sta con la mano alzata, forte, ferma, come la statua della Libertà, ma senza quel cono gelato. Solo con la mano aperta, in alto e allora tu... [...] tu da lontano, da qualsiasi punto della terra, vedrai quella mano e saprai che lì potrai posarti e riposare.

The job of the union, he insisted, could be reduced to a simple idea: the protection of the slowest and least efficient worker.

Was he the kind of man you wanted next to you in a foxhole?—a saying used almost always by men who had never been in foxholes about other men who had never been in foxholes either.

I say unto you, be one [live in harmony; be united in righteousness; avoid contention]; and if ye are not one ye are not mine.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.