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Quotes About Brotherhood

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold
~ Nelson Mandela
To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.
~ Bob Dylan
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.
~ Cassandra Clare
We have found that it is easier for men to die together on the field of battle than it is for them to live together at home in peace.
~ Harry S. Truman
I'm a believer. I believe in the goodness of life. I believe in the brotherhood of mankind. I believe in humanity.
~ Nurudeen Ushawu
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
~ Voltaire
Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.
~ Douglas MacArthur
American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, "Am I my brother's keeper?
~ Herbert Hoover
The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We will find true peace only when we learn to see that there is no difference among ourselves, realize that we are different manifestations of one, and we love each other as brother and sister.
~ Debasish Mridha
The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and I attribute that to the team.
~ Anthony Kiedis
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
~ John Keats
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
It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.
~ Otto Rehhagel
It takes two men to make one brother.
~ Israel Zangwill
Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood.
~ Amit Kalantri
When you are a grown up your brothers become your neighbors and your unconditional brotherhood become your conditional neighborhood.
~ Amit Kalantri
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
~ Khalil Gibran
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
~ William Blake
the only brotherhood they belonged to was the one that asked that enduring question: How do I get through the next twenty minutes? They feared drys, cops, jailers, bosses, moralists, crazies, truth-tellers, and one another. they loved storytellers, liars, whores, fighters, singers, collie dogs that wagged their tails, and generous bandits. Rudy, thought Francis: he's just a bum, but who ain't?
~ William Kennedy
Our country is the world—our countrymen are all mankind.
~ William Lloyd Garrison
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
~ David Duchovny