Fannie Lou Hamer Quotes

Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.

Finally, let understand that when we stand together, we will always win. When men and women stand together for justice, we win. When black, white and Hispanic people stand together for justice, we win.

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.

Black Power is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations.

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

We don't care who you is - Blood, Crip, Mexican, Chinese. You feel me? If you about doing something positive with yourself and your community, let's join forces together.

We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.

Solidarity is not an act of charity, but mutual aid between forces fighting for the same objective.

I can't do everything alone. I need all Filipinos to unify.

Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

If we're unified, there's nothing we cannot do.

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

United we stand, divided we fall.

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.

We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.