Brotherhood Quotes - Page 3

• My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

  David Duchovny

  Past, Focus, Feelings

  Interview with Lawrence Grobel, www.playboy.com. December 1998.

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• There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

  Anwar Sadat

  Family, Justice, Diversity

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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  Our true nationality is mankind.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Racism, People

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• A brotherhood of venerable trees.

  William Wordsworth

  Brother, Tree

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The poetical works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.28

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• The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

  Jane Wyman

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Awareness

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• There is no brotherhood between love and dignity,
  Nor can they share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Dignity, Share

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• Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

  Golda Meir

  Giving Up, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• See the brotherhood of all mankind as the highest order of Yogis; conquer your own mind, and conquer the world.

  Guru Nanak

  Order, Conquer The World, Mind

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• It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

  Jo Bonner

  Giving, Spirit, Revealing

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• I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my sisters and my brothers, and in them I found all three.

  Baba Amte

  Inspirational, Sister, God

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• The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed.

  Helen Keller

  Ideas, Dawn, World

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• There is the sky, which is all men's together.

  Euripides

  Nature, Men, Sky

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Give bread to a stranger, in the name of the universal brotherhood which binds together all men under the common father of nature.

  Quintilian

  Father, Men, Names

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• The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

  Tennessee Williams

  Brother, Tongue, Dangerous

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Men, Tolerance, Age

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature.

  Voltaire

  Death, Forgiveness, Nature

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French”, p.272

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• I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Son

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

  Lee Atwater

  Humanity, Taught, Illness

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Hands, Kwanzaa, Black History

  "Papers: The Autobiographical Writings".

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• The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

  James A. Baldwin

  Faith, Teamwork, Kwanzaa

  "The Fire Next Time". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1963.

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• The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

  Barbara Deming

  Men, Being Free, Trying

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• My friends, let us try to follow the Saviour's steps; let us remember all day long what it is to be men; that it is to have every one whom we meet for our brother in the sight of God; that it is this, never to meet anyone, however bad he may be, for whom we cannot say: "Christ died for that man, and Christ cares for him still. He is precious in God's eyes, and he shall be precious in mine also".

  Charles Kingsley

  Brother, Eye, Men

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• Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend.

  Eric Sevareid

  Dream, Profit, Postponing

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• The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

  Epictetus

  Compassion, Cities, Beloved

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• 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

  Friendship, Believe, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Speech in New York City, www.imdb.com. December 12, 1964.

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