Brother Keepers Quotes & Sayings

We need to pay attention to each other. We are our brother's keepers. We are our sister's keepers. — Trai Byers

We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us. — Paula Deen

The genius of free human beings is that, given responsibility, they join together to take care of each other - to be their brothers' keepers when their brother needs help. The triumph of an earlier America was that it had set all the right trends in motion, at a time when the world was first coming out of millennia of poverty into an era of plenty. The tragedy of contemporary America is that it abandoned that course. Libertarians want to return to it. — Charles Murray

Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go. — Norman Maclean

I think if you're a liberal, you believe that we all are, at least to some extent, our brothers' keepers, you really believe that we have a sumptuary responsibility to make sure that life is decent for everybody in America, that you believe that society out to be broadly shared, and you believe that you can't have a real democracy unless you have a little bit, at least, of economic democracy. — Paul Krugman

If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are. — William Randolph Hearst

We have forgotten to be our brothers and sisters keepers. And we have forgotten that the Number 1 goal is to love one another. — Ann Richards

We are our brother's and sister's keepers; life is short, all we can do is help as many people as we can. — Dr. Kevin T Coughlin

When Michelle and I decided that I would run for President, it was because of a shared belief in the power of community and connection, a commitment to the idea that we are our brothers' keepers. — Barack Obama

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers. — Ayn Rand

Therefore we pledge to bind
ourselves to one another, to embrace
our lowliest, to keep company with
our loneliest, to educate our illiterate,
to feed our starving, to clothe our
ragged, to do all good things,
knowing that we are more than
keepers of our brothers and sisters.
We are our brothers and sisters — Maya Angelou