Solidarity Quotes

See also Core English Vocabulary (S) Quotes

"In retrospect, the millennium marked a moment in time, but it was the events of 11th September, that marked a turning point in history. It was a tragedy, an act of evil. From this nation goes our deepest sympathy and prayers for the victims and our profound solidarity with the American people. We were with you at the first - we will stay with you to the last."

- Tony Blair

We are grateful to those who at difficult times showed solidarity with us, with what the people of Russia are going through, and still are doing so.

- Boris Yeltsin

felt the solidarity of all of you ... by caresses on her hair, holding of her hand, praying with her until her very last minutes.

- Terri Schiavo

By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.

- Andrzej Wajda

The publicity, solidarity and NYSUT`s legal support helped resolve the issue,

- Jennifer Cole

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.

- Arianna Huffington

Upon winning his Academy Award for Bowling for Columbine (2002): "On behalf of our producers, Kathleen Glynn and Michael Donovan from Canada, I`d like to thank the Academy for this. I have invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us, and we would like to say that they`re here in solidarity with me because we like non-fiction. We like non-fiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whether it`s the fiction of duct tape or fiction of orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. (Interrupted by mingled boos and cheering) And any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up. Thank you very much."

- Michael Moore

I have never seen such solidarity. It was a consistently united voice.

- James Dunn

when we supported Solidarity, we were criticized by the Europeans for being naïve. Yet in 1989, when the Berlin Wall was about to collapse, there were very few American officials who believed that history was about to turn.

- Daniel Fried

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

- Elfriede Jelinek

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

- Elfriede Jelinek

There is a movement in club football, which I don`t necessarily consider a prime example of solidarity, because it leads us to conclude the rich are getting richer and they are using everything in the market to create an exodus from Africa.

- Sepp Blatter

The game is a show of our support and solidarity for those affected by this natural disaster, ... As professional athletes we`ve been very privileged and this is one way we can help take care of our own.

- Kenny Smith

The game is a show of our support and solidarity for those affected by this natural disaster. As professional athletes we`ve been very privileged and this is one way we can help take care of our own.

- Kenny Smith

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

At the same time, the fact the world`s poor are calling upon us to help is a marker, in my view, of the limitless potential of human solidarity.

- Paul Farmer

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

- Akrivos Tsolakis

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

- Al Fernandez

It is not only a new era for Taiwan`s democracy, it is a new era for solidarity and harmony, and a new era for peace across the Taiwan Strait.

- Alan Heap

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.

- Alfredo Viegas

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

- Allan Pope

Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

- Allen Holmes

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

- Amber Cunningham

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.

- Amitabh Ray

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

- Amitabh Ray

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

- Andrew Speedy

I entered at an interesting time, after the L.A. riots, when the field was in crisis. A lot of the movement was down with solidarity with other races, but the riots were a shock. The focus became interracial relations, and they wanted to know what I thought. It gave me a weird credibility in the field. A lot of us got published in academic journals right away.

- Arnaud de Borchgrave