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Quotes About Respect

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
~ Chinua Achebe
No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
~ Ann Landers
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
~ Kailash Satyarthi
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
~ Kerry Washington
Dressing down is a crime against humanity.
~ Simon Doonan
One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.
~ James A. Baldwin
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
~ Desmond Tutu
Without humility there can be no humanity.
~ John Buchan
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
~ Elie Wiesel
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
~ Joseph Joubert
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity.
~ Voltaire
Abortion is an attack on the family and the humanity that unites us all.
~ Alveda King
To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.
~ Clarence Thomas
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
~ James A. Baldwin
All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others
~ Desmond Tutu
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending
~ William Loren Katz
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
~ Immanuel Kant
No moral value is greater than humanity.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
~ Jonathan Swift
To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
~ Nelson Mandela