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Quotes About Brotherhood

I know my brother. Michael, he's not that kind of person. He doesn't do that. That's all a lie on him.
~ Jackie Jackson
Mike Bibby's my brother.
~ Fat Joe
My father and brothers were in the military.
~ Garth Brooks
I hang around military guys and like it.
~ Rudy Boesch
The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.
~ Malcolm X
The NFL is a brotherhood - if you think about all the millions of people that live in America and there's 1,900 people in the NFL. That's not that many, so everybody knows each other.
~ Mohamed Sanu
Men cannot be our enemies--even men called Vietcong! If we kill men, what brothers will we have left? With whom shall we live then?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
The peaceful life of the monastery, where true brotherhood was possible, was a small oasis in the midst of the suffering of war.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The truth I love in loving my brother cannot be something merely philosophical and abstract. It must be at the same time supernatural and concrete, practical and alive. And I mean these words in no metaphorical sense. The truth I must love in my brother is God Himself, living in him. I must seek the life of the Spirit of God breathing in him. And I can only discern and follow that mysterious life by the action of the same Holy Spirit living and acting in the depths of my own heart.
~ Thomas Merton
The truth I must love in my brother is God Himself, living in him. I must seek the life of the Spirit of God breathing in him. And I can only discern and follow that mysterious life by the action of the same Holy Spirit living and acting in the depths of my own heart.
~ Thomas Merton
If I am to love my brother, I must somehow enter deep into the mystery of God's love for him.
~ Thomas Merton
If the deepest ground of my being is love, then in that very love and nowhere else will I find myself, the world, and my brother and sister in Christ. It is not a question of either-or but of all-in-one. It is not a matter of exclusivity and "purity" but of wholeness, wholeheartedness, unity, and of Meister Eckhart's gleichheit (equality) which finds the same ground of love
~ Thomas Merton
You didn't have parents or society telling you that you should love one another because you were brothers, you just did it by yourselves. There is no way, no earthly way, that that can ever be called a failure. You succeeded with Huck more than most people ever succeed with anyone.
~ Kathleen Gilles Seidel
Katsuya J?nouchi [to Esper Roba]: I have friends in this town...and you have your brothers! As long as you're not alone...you're always strong!
~ Kazuki Takahashi
Mick and I may not be friends—too much wear and tear for that—but we're the closest of brothers, and that can't be severed.
~ Keith Richards
Men honor men who honor their fellow men.
~ KEN ALSTAD
Everyman is me. I am his brother. No man is my enemy. I am Everyman and he is in and of me. This is my faith, my strength, my deepest hope, and my only belief.
~ Kenneth Patchen
He closed with entreaties mixed with excoriations and visionary hopes for the brotherhood of all people, where "we shall all be alike—brothers of one father and one mother, with one sky above us and one government for all.
~ Kent Nerburn
Meine Seele, meine Seele stinkt nach Brandewein. - Selbst das Geld geht in Verwesung über. Vergissmeinnicht. Wie ist dieses Welt so schön. Bruder, ich muss ein Regenfass voll greinen. Ich wollt unsre Nasen wären zwei Bouteillen und wir könnten sie uns einander in den Hals gießen.
~ Georg Buchner
I know William," Kaldar said. "He's married to my cousin, Cerise, who is more like my baby sister. If her life and happiness were at stake, William would burn the world just to see her smile. Jack is a changeling like William. He would move the earth and the moon to protect his brother. "So
~ Ilona Andrews
Sonrieron. Se entendían bien. No sólo los unía la carne, el pensamiento, el amor; además, habían nacido en el mismo puerto de Crimea, hablaban la misma lengua, se sentían hermanos. Habían bebido en la misma fuente, compartido un pan amargo.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Comprendo. —Añadí—: Tú me acusaste en una ocasión de decir tonterías. Si yo soy un privilegiado sólo por haberte visto abrazando a tu hermano… Seguía callada, sonriendo otra vez. Traté de no devolverle la sonrisa. Dije: —Me dijiste que eras una cabeza cortada. ¿Se pueden mantener relaciones humanas con una cabeza cortada?
~ Iris Murdoch
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
~ Katharine Lee Bates