Solidarity Quotes

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service.

Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred -- it is the amphetamine of its believers.

The earth is our house too.

The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.

I'm ambitious but I'm not particularly competitive.

I'll try to get roles, as I think it's healthy to go for things, but... I think there's too much competition between women already. It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.

I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

If the leading Negro classes cannot assume and bear the uplift of their own proletariat, they are doomed for all time. It is not a case of ethics; it is a plain case of necessity. The method by which this may be done is, first, for the American Negro to achieve a new economic solidarity.

During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples.

This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.