“In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda, integration, national self-determination, human rights, cultural and economic separatism, politics, international communism, expatriation, third world solidarity.” WorldHumansLongSelfProblemCoursesCareersRightsEconomicCenturyRacismSolutionsDeterminationThirdsInternationalHuman RightsCommunismPropagandaSelf DeterminationSolidarityIntegrationTwentieth CenturyScholarshipThird World Author:David Levering Lewis
“By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union.” HumansMadeClearRightsOrganizationTradeMajorityUnionsIntentionWorkersHuman RightsMade ItFarmersOverwhelmingSolidarityPolishFree TradeRestoringElementalsTrade Unions Book:Ronald Reagan Source: Ronald Reagan
“Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.” PeopleRightsSocietyRespectLaborOrganizationTradeUnionsHuman RightsOrganizedSolidarityLabor UnionTrade UnionsUnionismUnion Solidarity Author:Samuel Gompers
“Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.” ThinkingWorldFeelsShouldRealitySufferingCoursesRightsThis WorldStudentsJudgingConceptsContactPerceiveSolidarityOppressedFormationDisadvantaged Author:Peter Hans Kolvenbach
“... 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.” ShowsIndividualBlackSupportRightsProtectCourtNotionFolksHearingSupremeCivil RightsOutcomesSolidaritySupreme CourtDissentCritiqueAppointmentsMisguided Author:Bell Hooks
“I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.” PeopleMenYoungTalkingSawsRightsFeminismExampleStandingLeavingFeministSavedSolidarityAbusiveMatchingAbusive Relationship Author:Eve Ensler