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"Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood."
"We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself."
"As far as my experience goes, men of genius are fairly gifted with the social qualities; and in this age, there appears to be a fellow-feeling among them, which had not heretofore been developed. As men, they ask nothing better than to be on equal terms with their fellow-men; and as authors, they have thrown aside their proverbial jealousy, and acknowledge a generous brotherhood."
"When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society."
"We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it."
"Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family."
"It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country."
"Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate."
"Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives."
"God now is about to establish a kingdom on this earth based upon brotherhood and peace, and the white man is against brotherhood and the white man is against peace. His history on this earth has proved that."
"Nature has inclined us to love men."
"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."
"The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world with a broader significance than the narrow association of members in a sect or creed."
"The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood."
"Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass."
"Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood."
"This is the Easter message, that awakening is possible, to the goodness of God, the sacredness of human life, the sisterhood and brotherhood of all."
"In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood."
"We must love men, ere to us they will seem worthy of our love."
"Infinite is the help man can yield to man."
