solidarity quotes

Our nation must come together to unite.

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

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.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

I’m going to try to unite all Americans.

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I see Americans of every party, every background, every faith who believe that we are stronger together: black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American; young, old; gay, straight; men, women, folks with disabilities, all pledging allegiance under the same proud flag to this big, bold country that we love. That’s what I see. That’s the America I know!

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Hillary Clinton will always be there for you. And just remember – there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.

Primate and elephant and even pig societies show considerable evidence of care for others, parent-child bonding, solidarity in the face of danger, and so on.

We will stand up for our friends in the world. And one of the most important friends is the State of Israel. My administration will be steadfast in support Israel against terrorism and violence, and in seeking the peace for which all Israelis pray.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up – or else we all go down.

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.

I’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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

If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.