Quotes About Solidarity

I think my best skill in this whole deal is as a conduit to try to bring people together, because I think it's in our unity that we'll have the greatest strength.

All Men Are Brothers)

Le persone con cui attraversi gli inferi sono amici. Le persone con cui scampi agli inferi sono amici.

Lo scempio che san fare le femmine, manco i corvi ... Stasera te le ritrovi all'assemblea di sezione con certe muste che fai meglio a guardarti le unghie se non vuoi che te la grattino loro la rogna. Stanno tutte ingruppate, che paiono una cosa sola, un mostro bertoccuto e chioccio, con certe grinfie dritte e puntute come ferri da maglia.

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

Don't you run around here trying to make friends with somebody who's depriving you of your rights. They're not your friends, no, they're your enemies. Treat them like that.

We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves.... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves.

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we all realize that we have this common enemy, then we unite on the basis of what we have in common. And what we have foremost in common is that enemy -- the white man. He's an enemy to all of us. I know some of you all think that some of them aren't enemies. Time will tell.

There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity.

If the white man doesn't want us to be anti-him, let him stop oppressing and exploiting and degrading us.

The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.

Any kind of action that you are ever involved in that's designed to protect the lives and property of our mistreated people in this country, we're with you 1,000 percent. And if you don't feel you're qualified to do it, we have some brothers who will slip in ... and help train you and show you how to equip yourself and let you know how to deal with the man who deals with you.

men unite against none so readily as against those whom they see attempting to rule over them.

Dost ve dü?man herkes bilsin ki kazanaca??z. Mutlaka kazanaca??z!

Jews have managed to hold on to a shared sense of history and fate that finds few parallels in history.

If you're looking for a pal, Mr Clough, you can count me out.

Young visitors to the museum ask me, "What was it like to live during the civil rights struggle?" I gently tell them that we are living during the civil rights struggle. -David Pilgrim

People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together.

We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.

The more, and the louder, we come out today, the easier it will be for those who can't do so until tomorrow.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Not that Marcus had any problems with Mexicans, seeing as they had a common enemy in the Orange One

We came from many different places, had many different pasts, belonged to a variety of races and nationalities; but under the boiling summer sun, when shade temperatures often reached the century mark, the heat beating our backs like hammer until I felt like a nail myself, we were brothers sharing sweat, building our own Jerusalem in a desolate place.

Given the individualism that is endemic to much of white Christianity, it will be important to regularly teach the communal nature of the Lord's Supper. If we are to be shaped toward solidarity by the Communion meal, this note will need to be sounded more clearly by preachers and teachers.