1- I know that I need a
brother who shares this tender, taunting heritage. True friendship. I desire a
sister who is not in denial of our mutual past. Together we may be able to plan
a less painful future. Separate, we can only anticipate further ruptures and
grotesque loneliness.
Even the Stars Look Lonesome, 1997, p. 112
Even the Stars Look Lonesome, 1997, p. 112
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| Maya Angelou |
3- Christians are my brothers, Hindus are my
brothers, all of them are my brothers. We just think different and believe
different.
Muhammad Ali, O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2001
4- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand
fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic
threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Henry Melvill, "Partaking in Other Men's Sins", Melvill’s Golden Lectures for 1855, 1856
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| Kahlil Gibran |
Kahlil
Gibran, A Third Treasury of Kahlil
Gibran, 1974, p. 102
7-Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one.
Thomas Carlyle,
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8- The whole idea of compassion
is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings,
which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Thomas
Merton, final address, conference on
East-West monastic dialogue, 10
December 1968, Religious Education, Vol. 73 (1978), p. 292
9-God,
what a world, if men in street and mart,
12- It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it
will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this
country.
13- Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and
useless as when he is well and can be of service to him. And blessed is he who
loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and
who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his
face.
15- The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
23- Come, clear the way, then, clear the way:
Felt that same kinship of the human heart,
Which makes them, in the face of fire and flood,
Rise to the meaning of True Brotherhood.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Brotherhood, Picked Poems, 1912
10- Let us acknowledge our weaknesses as a
prelude to increasingly our strength. Let us use the admission of weakness not
to excuse our own self-indulgence, but to help us understand and forgive
others, for this is the secret of brotherhood, its pattern and its aim – to
create a world of men, each of whom can feel secure in the conviction that all
other men are his brothers – not his enemies.
11- Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they
brother call;
and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Hope, Faith, and Love, "The Words of Strength"(about 1786) , The
Common School Journal Vol. IX (1847) ed. Horace Mann,
p. 386
Malcolm X, New York City Speech, February 19, 1965
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| Louisa May Alcott |
St. Francis of Assisi,
Admonitions, 25. Of True Love
14- The very nature of these inventions cries out
for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of
us all.
15- The child has talent, loves music, and needs help. I can't give her money, but I can teach her; so I do, and she is the most promising pupil I have. Help one another, is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl, 1870, Ch. 13
16- The love of one's country is a splendid
thing. But why should love stop at the border? There is a brotherhood among all
men. This must be recognized if life is to remain. We must learn the love of
man.
Pablo Casals,
Joys and Sorrows : Reflections by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn, 1970, p. 299
17-
What he now calls the law of justice
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| Helen Keller |
Will prepare for him the law of sacrifice
A law more holy, where the instinct of fraternity
Will devote man freely to
humanity!Alphonsede Lamartine, The Fall of the Angel, Œuvres complètes de Lamartine, Vol. 16, 1861, p. 251
18- Ancient prejudice of man against his brother man wavers and retreats before the radiance of a more generous sentiment, which will not sacrifice men to forms, or rob them of the comfort and strength they find in their own beliefs. The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.
Helen Keller, Optimism, 1903, pp. 46-47
19- In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I
thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have
accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they
are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my
religion is to do good.
Rights
of Man, 1791, Part 2.7 Chapter V
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| Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
20- I
believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers,
varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but
differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the
possibility of infinite development.
21-To transform the world, to recreate it afresh, men must
turn into another path psychologically. Until you have become really, in actual
fact, a brother to every one, brotherhood will not come to pass. Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The
Brothers Karamazov, 1880, Ch.2
22- A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow
speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues,
proclaim the brotherhood of man.
Frederick Douglass, Composite Nation speech in Boston, Speeches and Articles by
Douglass, 1894
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| Frederick Douglass, |
Blind
creeds and kings have had their day.
Break the dead branches from the path;
Our
hope is in the aftermath —
Our hope is in heroic men,
Star-led to build the
world again.
To this Event the ages ran:
Make way for Brotherhood — make way
for Man.
24- In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the
fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Booker T. Washington, An Autobiography, The Story of my Life and Work, 1901, p. 140
25-Masonry only sees, in all
those religionaries but people, brothers and sisters to which it opens its
temple to free them from the prejudices of their countries, of the mistakes of
the religions of their ancestors, by bringing them to love and help one
another: because Masons deplore and flee error, but neither hate nor persecute
it.
Jean-Marie Ragon, Cours philosophique et interprétatif des initiations anciennes et modernes, 1841, p. 37
26- If you wish them to be brothers, have them build a tower.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, 1948, p. 52
27- May all these people and all their generations walk together as
relatives.
Black Elk, Sacred Pipe, 1953, 37
28- Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of man
Imagine all the peopleSharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamerBut I'm not the only oneI hope someday you'll join usAnd the world will live as one
John Lennon, Imagine, 1971
29- Well, we have a whole new year ahead of us. And wouldn't it be
wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, a
little more loving, and have a little more empathy, and maybe, next year
at this time we'd like each other a little more.
"The Judy Garland Show.", Sunday, January 5, 1964.
Only much later will they discover that they have entered into a new
community, great but invisible, which encompasses all peoples and all
religions. They will be poorer in all dogmatic, national goods, but
richer in brotherhood with the souls of all epochs, nations, and
languages. Hermann Hesse, Reflections, 1974
To transform the world, to recreate it afresh, men must turn into another path psychologically. Until you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to every one, brotherhood will not come to pass.
ReplyDeleteFyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, 1880, Ch.2