The world has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Brotherhood Quotes
There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being – to help someone succeed.
We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.
We live in a time when there dawns upon us a realization that the people on the other side of the mountain are not made up exclusively of redheaded devils responsible for all the evil on this side of the mountain.
We need to neutralize the aggression that wells up within us – often, strangely enough, against those who have the most in common with us. To understand all is to forgive all, and to know one another well enough, we should not hate one another but love one another.
While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.
We must learn to live together as brothers or we will perish together as fools. Racial injustice is still the black man’s burden and the white man’s shame. The government must certainly share the guilt, the individual must share the guilt, and even the church must share the guilt.
