Quotes about Solidarity
I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.
- Gloria Steinem
I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.
- Gloria Steinem
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow-man, without at last finding the other end of it about his own neck.
- Frederick Douglass
My father literally fought his entire life to ensure the inclusion of all people because he understood that we were intertwined and connected together in humanity.
- Bernice King
As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.
- Michelle Obama
We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.
- Leymah Gbowee
Only a fool would try to deprive working men and working women of their right to join the union of their choice.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The story of women's struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights.
- Gloria Steinem
Until the age of 19, I lived in the Communist Party commune where eight families lived in 180 to 200 square feet of space. In that world, social justice was a given. We grew up valuing that.
- Shabana Azmi
You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.
- Desmond Tutu
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
- Abraham Lincoln
America won't be saved because one or 10 people stand up. It will be saved because millions of us stand up.
- Marianne Williamson