QUOTES ON BROTHERHOOD A jeweled pivot on which our lives must turn is the deep realization that every person we meet in the course of a day is a dignified, essential human soul and that we are being guilty of gross inhumanity when we snub or abuse him.
Joshua Loth Liebman (1907–1948)
Brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but a divine command.
Harry S Truman (1884–1972)
Brotherhood: helping yourself by helping others.
Elbert Green Hubbard (1856–1915)
Brotherhood: to live, think, and suffer with the men of your time, as one of them.
Henri de Lubac (1896– )
Help your brother’s boat across, and lo, your own has reached the shore.
However wretched a fellow mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 b.c.–a.d. 65)
Human blood is all one color.
Sir Thomas Fuller (1608–1661)
I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 b.c.–a.d. 65)
If all good people were clever,
And all clever people were good,
The world would be nicer than ever
We thought that it possibly could.
But somehow, ’tis seldom or never
The two hit it off as they should;
The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good.
Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840–1932)
If any little love of mine may make a life the sweeter,
If any little care of mine may make a friend’s the fleeter,
If any little lift may ease the burden of another,
God give me love and care and strength to help my toiling brother.
In Christ there is no east or west,
In him no south or north,
But one great fellowship of love
Throughout the whole wide earth.
John Oxenham (1861–1941)
It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
Henry Miller (1891–1980)
Jesus throws down the dividing prejudices of nationality and teaches universal love, without distinction of race, merit, or rank. A man’s neighbor is everyone that needs help.
John Cunningham Geikie (1826–1906)
Keep Jesus Christ in your hearts and you will recognize his face in every human being. You will want to help him out in all his needs: the needs of your brothers and sisters.
Pope John Paul ii (1920– )
Oh, east is east and west is west,
and never the twain shall meet,
Till earth and sky stand presently
at God’s great judgment seat.
But there is neither east nor west,
border, nor breed, nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
though they come from the ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
The Christian life was not meant to live in a solitude forever, nor is it suited to it. It is a social life. All its movements suggest and prophesy a brotherhood. That brotherhood of believers is the Christian church.
Phillips Brooks (1835–1893)
The same heart beats in every human breast.
The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)
There is a destiny that makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back into our own.
Edwin Markham (1852–1940)
There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God.
Henry Martyn Field (1822–1907)
To know that all men are brothers is not only to know that all men are alike, but to know that all men are different.
Robert Burns (1759–1796)
We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968)
What is brotherhood? Brotherhood is giving to others the rights you want to keep for yourself. . . giving to the individual in another group the same dignity, the same full appreciation that you want to have yourself.
Everett R. Clinchy (1896– )
Without faith in the fatherhood of God, people have a pretty hard time being brotherly. They drift off into hate societies, or more often, into the society of the indifferent.
Edwin T. Dahlberg (1892–1986)
Yes, you’d know him for a heathen
If you judged him by the hide,
But bless you, he’s my brother,
For he’s just like me inside.
Robert Freeman (1878–1940)
