"All Men Are Brothers"

"All men are brothers."  How often we hear this refrain, the rallying call that strikes a response in every human heart.  These are the words of Christ, "Call no man master, for ye are all brothers."  It is a revolutionary call which has even been put to music.  The last movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony has that great refrain--"All men are brothers."  Going to the people is the purest and best act in Christian tradition and revolutionary tradition and is the beginning of world brotherhood...It is almost another way of saying that we must and will find Christ in each and every man, when we look on them as brothers.--Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, pg. 216.