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BROTHERHOOD QUOTES

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* "When strangers start acting like neighbors...communities are reinvigorated."
-- Ralph Nader

* We are a gentle angry people
We are a land of many colors
We are gay and straight together
We are a peaceful loving people
And we are singing, singing for our lives.
-- Holly Near

* All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments."
-- Jawaharlal Nehru

* We have a stake in one another ... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and ... if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done for the people with whom we share this Earth.
-- Barack Obama

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
-- Barack Obama

We will remember that we are not as divided as our politics suggests; that we are one people; we are one nation and together, we will begin the next great chapter in the American story with three words that will ring from coast to coast, from sea to shining sea:-- Yes. We. Can.
-- Barack Obama

* "The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
-- Thomas Paine.
* Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
-- M. Scott Peck

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
-- Pope John XXIII

"If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms."
-- Pope Pius VI

We must realize the truth of ourselves --- we are one human family. One a part of the other. My old work horse Teddy and the fancy registered horse visiting us had no trouble eating out of the same dish. We must discover the same.
-- Sister Lucy Poulin

"Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity."
-- Psalms. CXXXIII: 1

"All people are a single nation."
-- Qu-ran

* Technology is driving us together. In many ways we are becoming like one family. With the global threats resulting from science and technology, the whole of humankind now needs protection. We have to extend our loyalty to the whole of the human race.
-- Joseph Rotblat

Whatever system of governance is eventually adopted, it is important that it carries the people with it. We need to convey the message that safeguarding our common property, humankind, will require developing in each of us a new loyalty: a loyalty to mankind. It calls for the nurturing of a feeling of belonging to the human race. We have to become world citizens.
-- Joseph Rotblat

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

There is only one man in the world and his name is All Men. There is only one woman in the world and her name is All Women. There is only one child in the world and the child’s name is All Children.
-- Carl Sandburg

* if you can just see all the children of the world as your own, all the mothers of the world as you are, we can make a huge difference.

* "If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family."
-- Susan Sarandon

"Live and let live."
-- Scottish proverb

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
-- Roger Scruton

* The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
-- Amartya Sen

Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.
-- Amartya Sen

But once we recognize that many ideas that are taken to be quintessentially Western have also flourished in other civilizations, we also see that these ideas are not as culture-specific as is sometimes claimed. We need not begin with pessimism, at least on this ground, about the prospects of reasoned humanism in the world. -- Amartya Sen

* We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw

"The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative."
~ Vandana Shiva

* Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
~ Vandana Shiva

cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

Okay, we are different it's true.
And I don't like to do all the things that you do.
But here's one thing to think through,
You're a lot like me and I'm a lot like you!
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
-- Socrates

* Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight--a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
-- Barbra Streisand

 

"The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come."
-- Charles Sumner

 

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