Jimmy Smits Quotes

You've got to stop dividing yourselves. You got to organize.

So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.

'Rise Up' is very necessary. Point blank.

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

We are one people… our enemies made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affection binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength.

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

Hillary Clinton is the problem; she is not the solution to Donald Trump. We are the solution. We are the ones we've been waiting for. This is our moment. Together, we do have the power to create an America and a world that works for all of us.

I'm Puerto Rican, but I represent everybody.

There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.

Fear has never built a community. And fear will never build a nation.

People don't realize they have the power. People don't realize that if they come together, there are more of them than those who occupy the seat that I'm in right now.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.

When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.

Everyone who has felt alienated by the games industry, both would-be players and creators, needs to rally together and support one another as we create a space for those of us who don't fit in traditional spaces.

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be.

The grandeur and strength or our people and democracy are as big as a forest.

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

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

The notion of 'we' is very important. I think, for any family, any community to be able to say 'we' in this family, it means something. It's dangerous to society when somebody will place himself or herself on the outside of 'we.'

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It's the impetus for creating change.

Neither, I must say with all due respect, is it the power of teachers and students. Basically the true and real power is with working people of all colors, of all beliefs, of all national origins.