„Holy shadows of the dead, I’m not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.“
Addressing the dead Hellenes (the Athenean and Thebean Greeks) of the Battle of Chaeronea, as quoted in Historiae Alexandri Magni by Quintus Curtius Rufus
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— Maximilien Robespierre French revolutionary lawyer and politician 1758 - 1794
"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, proposed by Maximilien Robespierre" (24 April, 1793)
Original: (fr) XXXV. Les hommes de tous les pays sont frères, et les différents peuples doivent s'entraider selon leur pouvoir comme les citoyens du même état.
„We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this.“
— Donovan Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist 1946
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Kontext: We are one, we are all brothers and sisters, but the people of the world do not know this. So this was the teaching, but how do you teach it? As young people, John Lennon, George Harrison, myself, Carlos Santana and other spiritual seekers in pop music, we wanted to know the answer but we found a question: How do you convince the rest of the western world that they are ill, they are mentally ill, that they have a sickness and that they have lost the way? How do you teach that? You cannot teach that in the normal sense. You have to encourage a spiritual call, so we devoted ourselves to making songs which would have a spiritual call inside of them, hoping to awaken an awareness with this music. And other people in the arts felt the same...
„If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?“
— Theodore Sturgeon American speculative fiction writer 1918 - 1985
Title of story about the incest taboo and social pathologies in the anthology Dangerous Visions (1967) by Harlan Ellison.
— Pik Botha South African politician 1932 - 2018
at the signing of the peace protocol in Brazzaville in 1988
Quoted in Shaun Johnson, Strange Days Indeed (1993), p. 39
— Little Richard American pianist, singer and songwriter 1932
When John Waters met Little Richard http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/28/john-waters-met-little-richard.
Song lyrics, Others
— Pierre Trudeau 15th Prime Minister of Canada 1919 - 2000
Part 3, 1974 - 1979 Victory And Defeat, p. 224
Memoirs (1993)
„I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.“
— Ai Weiwei Chinese concept artist 1957
2010-, Never Sorry, 2012
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Romanian politician 1899 - 1938
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Nation and Culture
— Lucy Stone American abolitionist and suffragist 1818 - 1893
Letter to Susan B. Anthony (1891); as quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (1898) by Ida Husted Harper.
— Tony Blair former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
As quoted in "Socialism is So Hot Right Now" https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/socialism-hot-right-now/ (17 September 2018), by Jonah Goldberg, Commentary
1990s
„My brothers and sisters all hated me 'cause I was an only child.“
— "Weird Al" Yankovic American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist 1959
"Generic Blues" http://www.yankovic.org/WeirdAl/f_Uhf_and_Other_Stuff/index.php#09, UHF soundtrack (1989) .
Song lyrics
— Steven Biegler 1959
Father Steve Biegler selected as ninth bishop of Diocese of Cheyenne https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/father-steven-biegler-selected-as-ninth-bishop-of-diocese-of-cheyenne/article_7b23ad10-0ad8-11e7-a803-eb2d09401e05.html (Mar 17, 2017)
