"He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" is a phrase and song symbolizing selfless support, with origins linked to an 1884 story, the 1924 Kiwanis magazine, and popularized as the motto for Boys Town following a 1918 incident involving Father Flanagan. The phrase was immortalized in the 1969 hit song by The Hollies, written by Bobby Scott and Bob Russell, which later became a 1988 UK number-one hit.