It is possible, in the interests of a false religion (such as Nationalism or Fascism) to avert one's eyes from the plain fact of human brotherhood; but the fact stubbornly remains, and we ignore it at our peril. We are all in the same boat, and we live in the shadow of a common doom.
Gerald Bullett, "Walt Whitman", in in Alfred Barratt Brown, Great Democrats, 1934 (reprinted by Spokesman Books, 2013).