how does the book connect to solidarity , use quotes

This quote celebrates the togetherness of identity and culture. Ancestors of the past help bind the people of the present to who they are as a people.

"But we sang our songs and brought them to the streets and into the classrooms—classrooms we built on our own lands and filled with our own words and books. And once we remembered that we were warriors, once we honored the pain and left it on the side of the road, we moved ahead. We were back."