Be Your Brother's Keeper Quotes

#1. You can only be your brother's keeper if he allows you

Ikechukwu Izuakor

#2. I don't have to save them all, just a few, or one, and then that one has to go out and save another one until this half-dead world begins to climb out of the grave it's standing in waiting for someone to throw dirt on it.

Dan Groat

#3. We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

Maya Angelou

#4. American life is builded ... upon that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago ... [It] can not survive with the defense of Cain, Am I my brother's keeper?

Herbert Hoover

#5. Pay attention to the hungry, both in this country and around the world. Pay attention to the poor. Pay attention to our responsibilities for world peace. We are our brother's keeper ...

George McGovern

#6. The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

Evan Esar

#7. I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.

B.B. King

#8. We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us.

Paula Deen

#9. I miss my fox-headed brother. Keeper

Sarah Monette

#10. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Marlon Brando

#11. I AM my Brother's Keeper!

Jose N. Harris

#12. We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.

Dennis Lehane

#13. The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Orson Scott Card

#14. To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .

Thomas A. Edison

#15. During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

Napoleon Hill

#16. Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.

Ann Hood

#17. Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

Jeffrey R. Holland

#18. What if I was truly my brother's keeper? And what if I really loved my neighbor? And what if it really wasn't about me but about we - where would we be? The possibilities should blow your mind. But since it's not

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#19. I may not be my brothers keeper, but I am my brother's brother.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#20. Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#21. There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

Eric Hoffer

#22. Wrath clapped his brother on the shoulder. On the whole, though, the SOB was a total keeper. "Forgiven, forgotten."
"Feel free to hammer me anytime."
"Believe me, I do.

J.R. Ward

#23. If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.

William Randolph Hearst

#24. I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not
realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.

Edward Abbey

#25. We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#26. Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

Woody Allen

#27. In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother's Keeper, I'm personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Barack Obama

#28. Thousands of years ago the question was asked; 'Am I my brother's keeper?' That question has never yet been answered in a way that is satisfactory to civilized society.

Eugene V. Debs

#29. I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE ONLY AS STRONG AS OUR NEIGHBOR IS, AND THE IDEA THAT, I'M MY BROTHER'S KEEPER WORKS FOR ME.

Jon Bon Jovi

#30. I can't think of anyone I've mistreated. I've always thought that I am my brother's keeper. And I believe there's a 'great spirit' that takes care of all of us.

B.B. King

#31. If there is no God,
Not everything is permitted to man.
He is still his brother's keeper
And he is not permitted to sadden his brother,
By saying there is no God.

Czeslaw Milosz

#32. The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#33. It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper that makes this country work. It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.

Barack Obama

#34. At I Am My Brother's Keeper, there were no dues, no drives, no singles nights. Membership grew the old-fashioned way: a desperate need for God.

Mitch Albom