Brotherhood Quotes - Page 18

• Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick - and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Christian, Religious, Buddhist

  "Understanding the Religious Reich or The American and World-Wide Threat of Fundamentalism" by Isaac Bonewits, Version 2.6, www.neopagan.net. 1990.

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• Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know.

  Alton Tobey

  Art, Lenses, World

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• All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

  Haniel Long

  Spiritual, Live For Today, Details

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• If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

  Gardiner Spring

  Prayer, Blood, Grace

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.225

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• To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your sisters - is to become something less than a man... since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.

  Adrienne Rich

  Winning, Men, Self

  Ms. Magazine (p. 44), September 1979.

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• The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

  William Howard Taft

  War, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

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• Our doctrine of equality and liberty and humanity comes from our belief in the brotherhood of man, through the fatherhood of God.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Equality, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

  Calvin Coolidge (1929). “Mr. Coolidge's Address on Secondary Education”

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• Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky and water was a real and active principle. In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them. And so close did some of the Lakotas come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Real, Animal, Sky

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.193, U of Nebraska Press

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• Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Children, Hate, Heart

  "Paris Talks". Book by Abdu'l-Bahá ("The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace," October 21, 1911), reference.bahai.org. 1912.

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• To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Men, Long Ago

  Song: Long Ago, Far Away

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• It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.

  John Dos Passos

  Struggle, Power, Men

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.21, Transaction Publishers

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• Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

  Susan Glaspell

  Opportunity, Democracy, Enterprise

  Susan Glaspell (1912). “Lifted Masks”

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• I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity
  and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.

  Erich Fromm

  Believe, Creativity, Reality

  Erich Fromm (1994). “On Being Human”, Continuum

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• For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.

  Mikhail Kalinin

  Struggle, Taken, Years

  "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.

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• The founders of the great world religions, Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao-Tzu, Mohammed, all seem to have striven for a worldwide brotherhood of man; but none of them could develop institutions which would include the enemy, the unbeliever.

  Geoffrey Gorer

  Jesus, Men, World Religions

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• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Kindness, Compassion

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for.

  Chico Xavier

  Religious, Book, Giving

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• A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood... A day will come when we shall see... the United States of America and the United States of Europe face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Europe, Sea

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• The foundation upon which our nation stands is much richer and firmer than the sympathies that may occasionally divide us. And we never know this more truly than in Christmas time. In good times or in bad, under clear skies or under the shadow of uncertainty, the Christmas message is the imperishable one of joy, hope and brotherhood.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Sky, Joy, Shadow

  Christmas message to overseas Filipinos, December 25, 1979.

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• We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea.

  Joseph Campbell

  Animal, Sea, Water

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.40, Anchor

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• Hubert Humphrey with kids"Be clear where America stands. Human brotherhood and equal opportunity for every man, woman, and child, we are committed to it, in America and around the world."

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Children, Kids

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• I have spent over half my life teaching love and brotherhood, and I feel that it is better to continue to try to teach or live equality and love than it would be to have hatred or prejudice. Everyone living together in peace and harmony and love - that’s the goal that we seek, and I think that the more people there are who reach that state of mind, the better we will all be.

  Rosa Parks

  Teaching, Thinking, People

  Rosa Parks, James Haskins (1948). “My Story”, Scholastic

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• As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and women (purdah) will provide relief from all illusion. If Malcolm X had been a black woman his last message to the world would have been entirely different. The brotherhood of Moslem men-all colors-may exist there, but part of the glue that holds them together is the thorough suppression of women.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Thinking, Color

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• God of our fathers,
  you chose Abraham and his descendants
  to bring your Name to the Nations:
  we are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those
  who in the course of history
  have caused these children of yours to suffer,
  and asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves
  to genuine brotherhood
  with the people of the Covenant.

  Pope John Paul II

  Children, Father, Names

  Pope John Paul II's Written prayer placed by the pope into the Western Wall in Jerusalem, during his apostolic journey to the Holy Land, w2.vatican.va. March 26, 2000.

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• The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Unity, Cry

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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