Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

It is powerful to know what it feels like to be in community with people who will show up and fight for each other.

We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.

If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say.

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

I've always wanted to fight for people who didn't have arms. I've always wanted to speak up for people who don't have a voice. I've always wanted to protect people who couldn't protect themselves. It's my nature. It's my instinct.

We are members of one another. What binds us together is far greater than what separates us... because of our interconnectivity, what happens to the least of us happens to all of us. Whatever you do for the least of us, you do for all of us.

We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.

We do have the power to save one another...

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.

We need to redefine community and find a variety of ways of coming together and helping each other.

To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.

We must not only preach the doctrine of human rights, we must learn how actually to be our brother’s keeper.

… men who are governed by self-interest will combine, whether white or black, and the generous and selfless will similarly unite

Whenever we make it over the threshold, we have to reach back and help others.

The real power of any movement is how we work together with other social justice movements.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

I believe we can make progress on bringing true equality and fairness back to our government if we continue to work together and make our voices heard.

My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.