#solidarity

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ↗

— Malcolm X

#police-brutality #power #resistance #solidarity #violence

The first commendment of hte post 1970s meritocracy can be sumed up as follows: "Thou shall provide equality of opportunity to all, regardless of race, gender, or sexual oritentation, but worry not about equality of outcomes." But what we've seen time and time again is that the two aren't so neatly separated. If you don't concern yourself at all with equality fo outcomes, you will, over time, produce a system with horrendous inequality of opportunity. This is the paradox of meritocracy: It can only truly come to flower in a society that starts out with a relatively high degree of equality. So if you want meritocracy, work for equality. Because it is only in a society which values equality of actual outcomes, one that promotes the commonweal and social solidarity, that equal opportunity and earned mobility can flourish. ↗

— Christopher L. Hayes

#inequality #meritocracy #social-solidarity #equality

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

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

— Omar Bongo

#among #countries #duty #short #solidarity

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#building #citizens #communities #dignity #economy

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#glass #good-will #heart #here #hopeless

We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#clear #demands #democratic #democratic system #freedom

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

#because #club #conclude #consider #create

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

#among #borders #divide #fact #great

The main concept is that of an international solidarity expressed in practice through worldwide division of labor: free trade is the principal point in the program of internationalism. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#division #expressed #free #free trade #international