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BROTHERHOOD QUOTES

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What divides us pales in comparison to what unites us.
-- US Senator Edward Kennedy

* "Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
-- John F. Kennedy
* Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
-- Robert F. Kennedy

"The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.'"
-- Abdul Ghaffar Khan

* "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." -- Martin Luther King, Jr

"We must learn to live together as brothers, or we are going to perish together as fools." -- Martin Luther King, Jr

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

"The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

* I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr

* "What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don’t make a difference in how we are treated."
-- Yolanda King

* "Don't become too narrow. Live fully. Meet all kinds of people. You'll learn something from everyone. Follow what you feel in your heart."
-- Yuri Kochiyama

"The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that, at the end of the day, we will understand that we are one people, one country, and one community, and that our well-being is inextricably bound up with the well-being of each and every one of our fellow citizens."
-- C. Everett Koop

"There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions."
-- Hans Küng

mitakuye oyasin (we are all related)
~ Lakota

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
-- Margaret Laurence

* Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
-- John Lennon

And so Happy Christmas for black and for white, for yellow and red, let's stop all the fight.
-- John Lennon


"Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts."
-- Max Lerner

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace."
-- Max Lerner (The Gifts of the Magi, 1949)

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.
-- Walter Lippman

All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. Therefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

* Our cause is the cause of equality between nations and peoples. Only thus can the brotherhood of man be firmly established.
-- Chief Albert John Lutuli
* Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. --
Chief Oren Lyons, Onandaga Nation

* Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
-- Yo-Yo Ma

* When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
-- Yo-Yo Ma

* “When we enlarge our view of the world, we deepen our understanding of our own lives."
-- Yo-Yo Ma

* It's like everybody's sitting there and they have some kind of veil over their face, and they look at each other through this veil that makes them see each other through some stereotypical kind of viewpoint. If we're ever gonna collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we're gonna have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.
-- Wilma Mankiller

"The crest and crowning of all good,
Life's final star, is Brotherhood."
-- Edwin Markham

"There is a destiny which makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone."
-- Edwin Markham

Understand the differences; Act on the commonalities.
-- Andrew Masondo, African National Congress

There are a number of attributes of species and populations that are not of any particular selective advantage to any single individual in a population but that are of great advantage to the population as a whole.
-- Ernst Mayr

* "If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place."
-- Margaret Mead

"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."
-- Herman Melville

* "I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples."
-- Rigoberta Menchú

* "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

"Love thy neighbor."
-- Thales of Miletus (640 - 546 B.C.)

* It is hardly possible to overrate the value, for the improvement of human beings, of things which bring them into contact with persons dissimilar to themselves and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar... It is indispensable to be perpetually comparing [one's] own notions and customs with the experience and example of persons in different circumstances... There is no nation which does not need to borrow from others.
-- John Stuart Mill

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
-- Toni Morrison

Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world.
-- Murathan Mungan

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