Top 22 Black Solidarity Quotes
#1. I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport.
Harold Ramis
#2. When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.
Jesse Jackson
#3. Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.
Kris Saknussemm
#4. Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.
Randall Kennedy
#5. The outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.
Bell Hooks
#6. 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
#7. [ ... ] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!
Kang Chol-Hwan
#8. It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.
Joyce Cary
#9. A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#10. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.
Fred Hampton
#12. The fact of the Fall and the accomplished redemptive work of Christ serve as the true foundation for the liberation of black people. The fruits of Christ's sacrifice are not restricted to any one group of people because of our common human solidarity as sinners.
Anthony B. Bradley
#13. I would often go on as myself, when I wasn't working. And the first time I went on as myself, two people came up and asked me what I was doing and who I was.
Janet McTeer
#14. I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
Taran Killam
#16. Should we give you a wake-up call with some anime songs?
Ryohgo Narita
#17. Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. You don't fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We're not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism. We're gonna fight capitalism with socialism. Socialism is the people. If you're afraid of socialism, you're afraid of yourself.
Fred Hampton
#19. There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
Yoko Ono
#20. Although we are feminists and lesbians, we feel solidarity with progressive black men and do not advocate the fractionalization that white women who are separatists demand.
Combahee River Collective
#21. He's wearing a dog tag. His name is Henry Webb. His unit is called BLM." "What does it mean?" "Black Like Me. A solidarity movement, I suppose.
James Patterson
#22. One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much.
Max Walker
