Quotes About Respect

There was an unwritten rule that hearing people who knew sign should identify themselves whenever they were around Deaf people. Otherwise the Deaf people might be carrying on an extremely private conversation, assuming no one around them could understand them. To not identify yourself was a betrayal of trust.

It never ceased to amaze Lacey how ignorant people were about deafness. Forget understanding Deaf Culture. Forget hearing people respecting them as a linguistic community with a shared history, language, and pride. That was way beyond most hearing people's understanding. Their perspective was that of pity, impairment, and fixing. Lacey was proud to be a Deaf woman, wouldn't want to become hearing for anything in the world.

She didn't think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn't want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn't want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people's opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!

The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

Not just romantic love, but love so deep, so full of respect, so full of gratitude for saving her from loneliness. He'd protected her when no man ever had before. She didn't even fear it or regret how vulnerable it made her to love Gage. It was too powerful, too wonderful.

No, Grace, it's not 'Miss Calhoun.'" Daniel had heard her say those words many times. They'd always set his teeth on edge. "It's Mrs. Reeves." Daniel added with angry triumph, "And guess what? I'm calling you Grace and the boys are calling you Ma.

Love isn't ownership. Love is partnership. It takes time,effort,and pain to be inlove

No one loves the man whom he fears.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.

Two hearts that are joined together in Love cannot be separated by anyone, unless you give them the power to do so. Guard each others Love and don't share with anyone your personal business.

In love, the feeling of owning your partner seems natural, but it is not. Every man is free, even in love.

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

The first duty of love is to listen.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Love sees no color

Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

I could never love where I could not respect

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

No man or woman is worth your tears, and the one who is, won't make you cry.

People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.