Quotes about Brotherhood
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold
- Nelson Mandela
I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.
- Henry David Thoreau
Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
- Khalil Gibran
The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves. My attention was drawn to it when the elder brother of Syde bin Habib was killed in Rua by a night attack, from a spear being pitched through his tent into his side. Syde then vowed vengeance for the blood of his brother, and assaulted all he could find, killing the elders, and making the young men captives. He
- David Livingstone
God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
In Jesus, the service of God and the service of the least of the brethren were one.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.
- James Freeman Clarke
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
- St. Basil
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another?
- Ezra Taft Benson
A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson