On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
Brotherhood Quotes
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree.
Those who nobly set out to be their brother’s keeper sometimes end up becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he […]
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.
I believe a man is born first unto himself – for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are […]
To feel that others, equally with ourselves, are members of the human race is the most difficult of arts. The idea of equality, as an idea, is easy to accept, but it is hard to translate into an emotion.
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics And the Catholics hate the Protestants And the Hindus hate the Moslems And everybody hates the Jews But during National Brotherhood Week – National Brotherhood Week – It’s National Everyone-Smile-At- One-Another-hood Week Be nice to people who Are inferior to you It’s only for a week, so have no […]
Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when he can build a world based on human solidarity and justice, only when he can feel rooted in the experience of universal brotherliness, will he have transformed his world into a true, human home.
