Quotations about Brotherhood and Unity

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ~Faith Baldwin


No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne


The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ~James Baldwin


In union there is strength. ~Aesop


Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great


So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Bahá'u'lláh


A universal beauty clothes the world,
And one heart seems to beat for all mankind!
~Robert Montgomery, "Beautiful Influences," A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829


I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning. ~Daniel D. Mich


Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi


In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. ~Booker T. Washington


Our design is so flawed, so take everything and fill the gaps with selfless love. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet


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., Strength to Love, 1963


Where beats a heart within a human breast,
There be Thou present, and Thy power adored!
And oh! since all are doom'd one common race
To run, and one eternal goal to reach,
May Thy prime attribute each bosom warm
With tender sympathy and truth; may man
Be link'd to man in fellowship of soul,
Till one vast chain of Love embrace the world!
~Robert Montgomery, "A Universal Prayer," A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829


Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~Virginia Burden, The Process of Intuition


We're all just walking each other home. ~Ram Dass


Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable. ~Kenyan Proverb


I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ~Don Marquis

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