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Our Spring, 2006 theme is, "A Plurality of One” (Christian Unity With Christian Conviction). Enjoy the related quotes below on the brotherhood of man.
“United we stand, divided we fall.” Aesop (6th century BC), The Four Oxen and the Lion.
"No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse . . . , any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." John Donne (1572 - 1631), from "Meditation XVII" of Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions.
“We must indeed all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin (attributed to this American statesman and founder at the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776).
“Even the weak become strong when they are united.” Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805), German dramatist, poet and historian.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand -- I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” Abraham Lincoln, June 16, 1858, 16th president of the United States.
“All for one, one for all.” Alexander Dumas (1802-1870), The Three Musketeers.
“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.” Edmund Burke (1729-1797), British political writer.
“It takes two men to make one brother.” Israel Zangwill, English novelist, playwright (1864 - 1926).
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), British writer.
"There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God." H. M. Field.
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight." Theodore Roosevelt, November 11, 1902.
"The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations...” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - P); Commencement Address at Harvard University on June 8, 1978.
“Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.” Walter Lippmann. (1889 - 1974).
"Isolation always involves distortion. In much of our practical life, error is neither patent absurdity nor obvious falsehood; for the most part, it is truth out of context; it is truth in isolation from other truths." Elton Trueblood, The New Man For Our Time. 1970.
“A joy shared is doubled, a sorrow shared is halved.” Unknown.
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