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• We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism.

  Fred Hampton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Capitalism

• More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Strangers, Solidarity

• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”

  Brian Tracy

  Topics in Life, Wisdom

  Tags in Solidarity

• I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream — a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man’s skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

  Martin Luther King Jr

  Topics in Dream, Humanity, Ideals, Justice, Opportunity, Racism

  Tags in Solidarity, Human Rights, Equality, Character, Creed, Credo

• Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Compassion, Equality, Solidarity, Freedom, Labor, Community, Creed, Credo

• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  Ulrich Beck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity

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

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Solidarity, Paradoxically

• One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

  Ella Maillart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feeling, Solidarity

• The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

  Ralph Chaplin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity

• 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.

  Paul Farmer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Widening, Alliance

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

  Jacques Delors

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Socialism, Responsibility, Cool

• When Hitler attacked the Jews I was not a Jew, therefore I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church — and there was nobody left to be concerned.

  Martin Niemoller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Indifference, Silence, Conscience

• First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.

  Martin Niemoller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Indifference, Silence, Conscience

• In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

  Martin Niemoller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Indifference, Silence, Conscience

• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Human Rights, Solidarity, Duty, Community, Loneliness

• We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Topics in Teamwork

  Tags in Connections, Solidarity, Community

• Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Commitment, Democracy

  Tags in Solidarity, Civilization

• If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

  Joseph Lane Kirkland

  Topics in Justice, Work

  Tags in Solidarity, Wealth, Labor

• My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: “We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.”

  Mary Harris Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Solidarity, Labor

• With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men.

  Clarence Darrow

  Topics in Education, Honesty

  Tags in Solidarity, Character, Labor