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Quotes About Brotherhood

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
~ Malcolm X
If you have seen in silent prayer How the soul of the earth fashions crystals, If you have seen the flame in the growing seed And death in life and birth in decay, If you have found brothers in men and beasts, And if you recognized in the brother, the brother and God, Then you will celebrate at the table of the holy grail Communion with the messiah of love. You will search and you will find, just like God said, The way to the lost paradise.
~ Unknown
Was Bapu right then? The line was meant to be only on paper, but it had morphed into the bloody battle line of brothers. Two millennia later, the Mahabharat was being re-enacted. Just as Bapu has feared...
~ Unknown
Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero!
~ Marc Brown
The humanists also lived double lives, in their own way: they had their officia, their negotia, and could only dedicate the best of their otium to solitary study and savant sociability. It was the model of the devout brotherhood, rather than the guild of artisans, that gave meetings between savants their regularity, festive rites, and a climate of literary zeal that warmed and familiarized those remnants of antiquity that seemed spectral or affected.
~ Unknown
Luc m'a pris dans ses bras. Je crois qu'il pleurait un peu, et je crois que moi aussi. C'est idiot, deux hommes qui sanglotent dans les bras l'un de l'autre. Peut-être pas, finalement, quand ce sont deux amis qui s'aiment comme des frères.
~ Marc Levy
Charles had more respect for Adam after he knew about the prison. He felt the warmth for his brother you can feel only for one who is not perfect and therefore no target for your hatred.
~ John Steinbeck
No - the stars are close and dear and I have joined the brotherhood of the worlds. And everything's holy - everything, even me.
~ John Steinbeck
Aron said slowly. "I wouldn't want to know that. I'd like to know why you do it. You're always at something. I just wonder why you do it. I wonder what's it good for." A pain pierced Cal's heart. His planning suddenly seemed mean and dirty to him. He knew that his brother had found him out. And he felt a longing for Aron to love him. He felt lost and hungry and he didn't know what to do.
~ John Steinbeck
And just as war is always for somebody else, so it is also true that someone else always gets killed. And Mother of God! that wasn't true either. The dreadful telegrams began to sneak sorrowfully in, and it was everybody's brother. Here we were, over six thousand miles from the anger and the noise, and that didn't save us.
~ John Steinbeck
Slim, Buna mecburdun George, dedi. BaÅŸka hiçbir çaren yoktu. Hadi gel benimle. George'u kolundan tutup anayola ç?kan patikaya doÄŸru götürdü. Curley ile Carlson onlar?n arkas?ndan bakt?lar. Carlson Yahu, dedi, nedir bu heriflerin derdi?
~ John Steinbeck
it would no more have occurred to Adam to confide in his brother—to tell him the hunger, the gray dreams, the plans and silent pleasures that lay at the back of the tunneled eyes—than to share his thoughts with a lovely tree or a pheasant in flight.
~ John Steinbeck
No," said George. "No, Lennie. I ain't mad. I never been mad, an' I ain't now. That's a thing I want ya to know.
~ John Steinbeck
Lennie said, I thought you was mad at me, George. No, said George. No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know.
~ John Steinbeck
But, far from feeling Stavros as one of the enemy camp, he counts on him to keep this madwoman, his wife, under control. Through her body, they have become brothers.
~ John Updike
We Believe: that faith in God gives meaning and purpose to human life: that the brotherhood of man transcends the sovereignty of nations: that economic justice can best be won by free men through free enterprise: that government should be of laws rather than of men: that earth's great treasure lies in human personality: and that service to humanity is the best work of life.
~ Unknown
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
~ Bible
Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.
~ William Butler Yeats
Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrongdoing; but be human, and loving, and gentle, and brotherly, the while
~ Unknown
Porque así es la gente, desgraciadamente. No se tragan entre ellos, pero para poner en solfa al otro estaban todos de acuerdo, y tan amistosamente, que parecían hermanos.
~ Unknown
His favorite book was Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire,
~ Marcus Luttrell
Eternal Father, faithful friend, Be quick to answer those we send, In brotherhood and urgent trust, On hidden missions dangerous, O hear us when we cry to Thee, For SEALs in air, on land, and sea. People
~ Marcus Luttrell