Maya Angelou Quotes

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 .

Are we truly being our sisters' keepers? Initially, that dog-eat-dog mentality within us may bark and say that we aren't responsible for other people, but if that was truly the case, then why are we even here? We have so much to offer and give to this world.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Our compassion for one another, and our individual actions to help, is what makes our nation - and our community - great.

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

Give love, and keep blood between brothers

The idea of service leads to community.

Feel good about linking hands in human chain for good causes.

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

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

I think we need leadership that helps us remember that part of what we are about is caring about more than the person right next to us, but the folks across the way.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

A free and rooted society ought to consist of a web of moral obligations. We have the right to ignore them, but we ought to be actually obliged not to let other people starve or to let them lapse into destitution.

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

We must use our empowerment for the good of others. We must be our brother’s and sister’s keeper.

All human beings are our brother and sisters. Working for their welfare is obligatory for Muslims

What are we here for, save to help each other, to love each other, to uplift each other?

The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.