Brotherhood

(296 votes)   Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(249 votes)   On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Adlai E. Stevenson
1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician

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(234 votes)   To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(227 votes)   The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(143 votes)   You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Booker T. Washington
1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator

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(130 votes)   There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

Eric Hoffer
1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher

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(123 votes)   I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.

Malcolm X
1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist

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(107 votes)   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.

R. D. Laing
1927-1989, British Psychiatrist

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(95 votes)   We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(91 votes)   If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Pope Paul VI
1897-1978, Pope from 1963-1978

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(90 votes)   When man to man shall be friend and brother.

Gerald Massey

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(87 votes)   I met a hundred men going to Delhi and everyone is my brother.

Indian Saying

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(84 votes)   Brotherhood is the very price and condition of man's survival.

Carlos Pena Romulo

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