If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
Whatever your ethnicity is, in this life you are going to be on a journey to discover who you are and how you feel about yourself.
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?