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Quotes About Brotherhood

Let all of us, though we are separated, remain socialists. Despite everything, let us remain brothers, brothers separated by a quarrel which is cruel but which is, nonetheless, a family quarrel, and whom a common hearth may some day reunite.
~ Leon Blum
O that all human hearts might join the strain; Then Hate, and Bigotry, and Sin would die; Then Peace would reign and wear its olive crown, And War with blood-stained feet no longer track Earth's fair domain, or wave its crimson flag. Then Pride would lay its flaunting mantle by; The cry of Hunger cease--the oppressor's rod Would scourge no more, but man be linked to man In one unbroken chain of brotherhood.
~ laighton albert
I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions.
~ Laila Lalami
The sultan of our kingdom, the governor of our province, and the nobles of our city - they all owned slaves. I ignored the teachings of our Messenger, that all men are brothers, and that there is no difference among them save in the goodness of their actions. With neither care nor deliberation, I consigned these three men to a life of slavery and went to the tavern to celebrate.
~ Laila Lalami
The brotherhood of man is evoked by particular men according to their circumstances. But it seldom extends to all men. In the name of our freedom and our brotherhood we are prepared to blow up the other half of mankind and to be blown up in our turn.
~ laing ronald david ii
He learned to coax Brother Cyrus into that place of reverie, and he collected the stories like treasure. Lazlo owned nothing, not one single thing, but from the first, the stories felt like his own hoard of gold.
~ Laini Taylor
Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?
~ lamb charles iii
I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.
~ Langston Hughes
Jem knotted his fingers in the material of Will's sleeve. "You are my parabatai," he said, "You said once I could ask anything of you.
~ Cassandra Clare
Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale," he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.
~ Cassandra Clare
A parabatai. Like he was. And Jace knew, too, what that faded rune meant: a parabatai whose other half was dead. He felt his sympathy leap toward Brother Zachariah, as he imagined himself without Alec, with only that faded rune to remind him where once he had been bonded to someone who knew all the best and worst parts of his soul.
~ Cassandra Clare
He began it," Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will's parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one's friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.
~ Cassandra Clare
He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we?
~ Cassandra Clare
You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you would let me have her. You can't love her as I do. No one could. If you are truly my brother, you would do this for me.
~ Cassandra Clare
I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace.
~ Cassandra Clare
For five years it had been his absolute truth. Jem and Will. Will and Jem. Will Herondale lives, therefore Jem Carstairs lives also.
~ Cassandra Clare
I take your hand, brother, so that you may go in peace. Will had opened his blue eyes that never lost their colour over all the passing years, and looked at Jem and then Tessa, and smiled, and died, with Tessa's head on his shoulder and and his hand in Jem's.
~ Cassandra Clare
He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.
~ Cassandra Clare
Would you?" said Gabriel to Will, hotly. "If it was your family?" His lip curled. "Never mind. It's not as if you know the meaning of loyalty —" "Gabriel." Gideon's voice was a reprimand to his brother. "Do not speak to Will in that manner.
~ Cassandra Clare
Being a Silent Brother is life, Clary Fray. But if you mean I remember my life before the Brotherhood, I do. Clary took a deep breath. "Were you ever in love? Before the Brotherhood? Was there ever anyone you would have died for?" There was a long silence. Then: Two people, said Brother Zachariah. There are memories that time does not erase, Clarissa. Ask your friend Magnus Bane, if you do not believe me. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.
~ Cassandra Clare
Wo men shi jie bai xiong di-we are more than brothers, Will.
~ Cassandra Clare
Spoon!" James said, running at his uncle Gabriel and jabbing him in the thigh. Gabriel mussed the boy's hair affectionately. "You're such a good boy," he said. "I often wonder how you could possibly be Will's." "Spoon," James said, leaning against his uncle's leg lovingly. "No, Jamie," Will urged. "Your honorable father has been impugned. Attack, attack!
~ Cassandra Clare
Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.
~ Cassandra Clare
I don't know," Mark said, looking down at his own long pale fingers tangled in the little boy's brown curls. "He just – Julian left, and Tavvy fell asleep on my lap." He sounded amazed, wondering. "Of course he did," Cristina said. "He's your brother. He trusts you." "Nobody trusts a Hunter," Mark said.
~ Cassandra Clare