“ Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb… Kamand Kojouri
“ True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it. Bell Hooks
“ 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 sol… Fred Hampton
“ Perhaps the saddest part of coexistence is the concept of interdependence being necessary for any form of solidarity to be realized. Being encouraged to lean on the weak, does not sound like a long te… Justin K. McFarlane Beau
“ I saw that you can’t do anything for anybody. We can’t save each other. Or ourselves.What have you left, then? Isolation and despair! You’re denying brotherhood, Shevek! the tall girl cried.No—no, I’m… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ My basic political principle: If something, whether right- or left-wing, is driven by love and solidarity, it is right; if it is driven by hate and fear it is wrong. Simple as that. Neel Burton
“ I propose a conspiracy of orphans. We exchange winks. We reject hierarchies. All hierarchies. We take the shit of the world for granted and we exchange stories about how we nevertheless get by. We are… John Berger
“ Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent of your peers on the judging panel. Seamus Heaney
“ Writers are the most tormented of all the different categories of artists that are out there in the world. Janvier Chouteu-Chando
“ And only when he'd finished and fallen silent did the vague smile return to his lips, in apparent gentle mockery of himself, of the man he had just described and for whom, deep down, he felt neither c… Arturo Pérez-Reverte
“ In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Sp… Felipe VI of Spain
“ Only a fool would find happiness from an achievement that is detrimental to those he loves. Janvier Chouteu-Chando
“ We, humans, have come up with so many superficialities that are completely unnecessary for our existence and happiness on earth. Janvier Chouteu-Chando
“ The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope. Bertolt Brecht
“ To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distan… Henri J.M. Nouwen
