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Quotes About Brotherhood

No sooner were the ships unloaded, however, than sickness broke out among the crews. It quickly spread among the natives, who had come to greet the ships with gifts of fish and fruits, "as if we had been their brothers," recalled one of the men on board.
~ David E. Stannard
Just then someone called his name and he turned and saw the torn and colorless polo shirt, the slacks that couldn't be patched any more. He saw the sunken-cheeked cadaver, the living waste of time and effort that added up to the face and body of his younger brother.
~ David Goodis
General Wu was about to say something and then thought better of it. Li walked him down the stairs to his car. As the door opened, Li leaned over and whispered in the general's ear: "I tolerate much from my brother. We are a family. Please don't ever do that again.
~ David Ignatius
The real goal, however, was not to defeat the white man, but "to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor and challenge his false sense of superiority.… The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the beloved community" where all men would treat each other as brothers and equals. "There are great resources of goodwill in the southern white man that we must somehow tap,
~ David J. Garrow
The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves. My attention was drawn to it when the elder brother of Syde bin Habib was killed in Rua by a night attack, from a spear being pitched through his tent into his side. Syde then vowed vengeance for the blood of his brother, and assaulted all he could find, killing the elders, and making the young men captives. He
~ David Livingstone
If God and Christ were equal then Christ should be called God's brother, not God's Son.
~ Arius
If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!
~ Katharine Lee Bates
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.
~ James Freeman Clarke
We're all a nation that believes we're children of the same god.
~ Mitt Romney
Whenever we cover our brother's sin, God will cover ours; whenever we tell people about our brother's guilt, God will do the same about ours.
~ Poemen
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
~ Saint Basil
Today Saint Paul has told us that in Christ we have become God's adopted children, brothers and sisters in Christ. This is who we are. This is our identity.
~ Pope Francis
Everything's a fan. Brother, open up your arms. God is the pivot.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Sharing is the answer for humanity. When we share we recognize that God is our brother, and unless we have that trust created by sharing, then nothing can be done.
~ Benjamin Creme
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.
~ Khalil Gibran
We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ.
~ Pope Francis
Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother.
~ Pope Francis
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.
~ Sathya Sai Baba