Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Genesis II, 7 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“I would give to all men, of every clime and race, of every faith and creed, freedom and equality”
Henry Wilson (1812–1875) Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian
As quoted in Colored Patriots of the American Revolution https://books.google.com/books?id=Jy8OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107 (1855), by William Cooper Nell, p. 107 <br class="br">Speech (June 1853) <br class="br">Context: A colored battalion was organized for the defense of New Orleans, and General Jackson publicly thanked them for their courage and conduct. When the country has required their blood in days of trial and conflict, they have given it freely, and we have accepted it. But, in times of peace, when their blood is not needed, we spurn and trample them under foot. I have no part in this great wrong to a race. Wherever and whenever we have the power to do it, I would give to all men, of every clime and race, of every faith and creed, freedom and equality before the law. My voice and my voice shall ever be given for the equality of all of the children of men before the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States.
“All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.”
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) 260th Pope of the Catholic Church
Statement (27 May 1946), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
“Within the four seas, all men are brothers.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Analects, Chapter XII
“How fast has brother followed brother,
From sunshine to the sunless land!”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Within the bounds of the four seas, all men are brothers.”
Shi Nai'an book Water Margin
Water Margin (Shuihu Zhuan)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
"Dreamland", st. 1 (1845).
Context: By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule —
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
“I believe that all men, black, brown, and white, are brothers.”
W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) American sociologist, historian, activist and writer
George Gordon Byron book The Bride of Abydos
Canto I, stanza 1; this can be compared to: "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, / Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, / Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, / And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!" Goethe, Wilhelm Meister.
The Bride of Abydos (1813)
“All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Pomes All Sizes (1992)