Alonzo Mourning Quotes

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

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.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

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

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

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

People long to help each other, to be together, to share experiences, to be part of a community, to influence the powers that control their lives.

People exist for one another.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

We're all in this together is a far better philosophy than you're on your own.

I think we're here for each other.

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

We all need each other.

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

I have vanity and greed enough for one person. But at the same time, I feel in my bones you lose a lot of life's value if you don't see yourself as a member of the family of man.

I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

Men exist for the sake of one another.