15 Quotes About Fraternity

As the founder of Phi Kappa Sigma, the first fraternity, Howard University’s first president, and the founder of Howard’s first literary magazine, Lyman Beecher is a truly influential figure in history. He was also one of the first people to propose the concept of fraternities at Howard. These are some of his most memorable quotes on fraternity life.

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Passando fra gli insorti che si scostavano con religioso rispetto, [papà Mabeuf] continuò dritto verso Enjolras che indietreggiava impietrito, gli strappò la bandiera, e senza che nessuno osasse trattenerlo né aiutarlo, quel vecchio ottuagenario col capo vacillante, ma col piede fermo, salì lentamente la scala di pietre costruita nella barricata. Lo spettacolo era così serio che tutto all'intorno dissero: «Giù il cappello! ». A ogni gradino che saliva diventava sempre più terribile: i suoi capelli canuti, il volto decrepito, l'ampia fronte calma e rugosa, gli occhi incavati, la bocca attonita e semiaperta, il vecchio braccio che sosteneva la bandiera rossa, uscivano dall'ombra e ingigantivano nel sanguinoso chiarore della torcia, e sembrava di vedere lo spettro del 1793 sorgere dalla terra inalberando la bandiera del terrore. Quando fu all'ultimo gradino, quando quel fantasma tremante e terribile, ritto su quel mucchio di rovine dinanzi a milleduecento fucili invisibili, si drizzò in faccia alla morte come se fosse più forte di essa, tutta la barricata assunse nelle tenebre un aspetto colossale e soprannaturale. Vi fu uno di quegli istanti di silenzio che accompagnano i prodigi. In mezzo a quel silenzio il vegliardo sventolò la bandiera rossa e gridò:« Viva la Rivoluzione! Viva la Repubblica! Fratellanza! Uguaglianza! E morte! ». Victor Hugo
Some of us can live without a society but not...
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Some of us can live without a society but not without a family. Amit Kalantri
You can take the Indian out of the family, but...
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You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian. Amit Kalantri
In your name, the family name is at last because...
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In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts. Amit Kalantri
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It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brot Vera Nazarian
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When you start to question you are part of the problem. Bert McCoy
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Justice has always evoked ideas of equality, of proportion of compensation. Equity signifies equality. Rules and regulations, right and righteousness are concerned with equality in value. If all men are equal, then all men are of the same essence, and the common essence entitles them of the same fundamental rights and equal liberty.. In short justice is another name of liberty, equality and fraternity. B.R. Ambedkar
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Comedy writers don't join fraternities.'' Don't pigeon hole me, Georgie, I'm infinite. Rainbow Rowell
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It was once necessary to go from somebody to nothing to become everything. Darnell Lamont Walker
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[A] great novel will allow you to transcend the social, racial and political limitations imposed by the vicissitudes of life and to find a deep fraternity based on empathy. Azar Nafisi
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If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt. Ambrose Of Milan
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Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126) Ferrol Sams
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption. Raoul Vaneigem
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A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. Spiro T. Agnew