Quotes about Solidarity

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

We have to take our anger and rage and channel it into building, growing, loving, holding each other up.

I was raised that if I'm with you and we get in a fight, I'm going to help you. We're going down together. That's how it goes.

The reality is what Black Lives Matter are raising as an issue is an issue.

If we start (as we must) at the bottom of the ladder, having compassion on all men, nothing that happens to others is foreign to us. Their grief is our grief, their poverty our poverty.

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.

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

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

Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it's an earthquake - when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Illinois is large, but we do not always receive our fair share of federal resources because our leadership is often divided. When we all row together, good things happen.