BROTHERHOOD

Quote: Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

Author: Heywood Broun 1888-1939, American Journalist, Novelist


Quote: There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

Author: Eric Hoffer 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher


Quote: Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet


Quote: The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author


Quote: We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Author: Lyndon B. Johnson 1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA


Quote: We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Author: Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964


Quote: The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.

Author: R. D. Laing 1927-1989, British Psychiatrist


Quote: You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

Author: Max Lerner 1902-, American Author, Columnist


Quote: To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA


Quote: I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Author: Malcolm X 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist


Quote: The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.

Author: Edwin Markham 1852-1940, American Poet and Editor


Quote: There is a destiny that makes us brothers, No one goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.

Author: Edwin Markham 1852-1940, American Poet and Editor


Quote: When man to man shall be friend and brother.

Author: Gerald Massey


Quote: If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Author: Pope Paul VI 1897-1978, Pope from 1963-1978


Quote: Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

Author: Carlos Pena Romulo


Quote: I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Author: Indian Saying


Quote: We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Author: Albert Schweitzer 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher


Quote: On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Author: Adlai E. Stevenson 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician


Quote: You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Author: Booker T. Washington 1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator


Quote: The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Author: Tennessee Williams 1914-1983, American Dramatist