BROTHER AND BROTHERHOOD

Related Subjects: Acquaintance, Companionship, Family, Friendship, Philanthropy, Sister

1. In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellowmen, not knowing what they do.—JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
   

2. A new commandment I give unto you. That ye love one another.—Bible, John13:34
   

3. The right hand of fellowship.—Bible, Galatians 2:9
   

4. Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. The underdog can and will lick his weight in the wildcats of the world.—HEYWOOD BROUN, The Fifty-First Birthday
   

5. A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.—CARLYLE, Essays
   

6. I have stood for the weak and the poor I have stood for the men who toil.—CLARENCE DARROW
   

7. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.—EMERSON, Society and Solitude
   

8. Let me live in my house by the side of the road
   And be a friend of man.—SAM W. FOSS, The House by the Side of the Road
   

9. I would rather be torn to pieces than disown my brothers of the suppressed classes.—MAHATMA GANDHI
   

10. He held his seat; a friend to human race.
    Fast by the road, his ever-open door
    Obliged the wealthy, and reliev'd the poor.—HOMER, Iliad
    

11. Write me as one who loves his fellow men.—LEIGH HUNT, Abou Ben Adhem
    

12. Say "we," "us" and "ours" when you're talking instead of "you fellows" and "I."—KIPLING, Norman and Saxon
    

13. Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the mirth,
    The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth;
    Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and the scum of the earth!
    Theirs be the music, the color, the glory, the gold;
    Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould.
    Of the maimed, of the halt and the blind in the rain and the cold.—JOHN MASEFIELD, Consecration
    

14. Be my brother, or I will bash your head in.—NAZI PROVERB, John Gunther: Inside Europe
    

15. And I said almost aloud:
    
    `Have you forgotten so soon? Henceforth this is your great curse as well as your great happiness, to see the souls of men naked and even the most foul a brother to your soul, which contains it. Bow down, even like the simple peasant, who kisses the bountiful corn-giving earth. For the most criminal of these gives you a rich gift, the substance of beauty.'—LIAM O'FLAHERTY, Two Years
    

16. The brother had rather see the sister rich than make her so.—Proverb
    

17. We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
    

18. Slav, Teuton, Kelt, I count them all
    My friends and brother souls,
    With all the peoples, great and small,
    That wheel between the poles.—TENNYSON, The Charge of the Heavy Brigade
    

19. Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you.—WALT WHITMAN, To a Common Prostitute