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Quotes About Respect

One of the things about equality is not that you be treated equally to a man, butthat you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.
~ Marlo Thomas
A Husband should always like his wife's cooking BEST. in Sarah's Gift
~ Marta Perry
La razón tiene una dignidad especial que se alza por encima del juego de las fuerzas, y sólo en la medida en que se respeta la razón en una sociedad las minorías serán capaces de hacer escuchar sus justas, pero impopulares, demandas.
~ Martha C. Nussbaum
Did you know that the highest form of respect for the Navajo is to call someone Grandfather? In fact, that's how they address God.
~ Martha Williamson
God creates us all in His image. There are no second-class citizens, no minorities, no human being greater or lesser that any other. We are all the same in His eyes.
~ Martha Williamson
Lo principal era tratar de no dejar nunca mal parado a un adversario, ashanti, fanti, mexicano o lo que fuere.
~ Martin Cruz Smith
When ibn Killis was on his deathbed the Caliph, deeply distressed, went to see his Jewish counsellor. The Caliph lamented: 'O Yaqub. How I wish that you were for sale so that I might buy you with my kingdom, or that you could be ransomed, that I might ransom you.'25 He later attended ibn Killis's funeral and laid his former adviser into the grave with his own hands–an extraordinary honour for a Muslim ruler to show to a Jew.
~ Martin Gilbert
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor has dignity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn't do his job, diseases are rampant.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout White Power! — when nobody will shout Black Power! — but everybody will talk about God's power and human power.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real tragedy of such narrow provincialism is that we see people as entities or merely as things. Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and worth and should be pursued with respect for excellence.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Negro knows he is right. he has not organized for conquest or to gain spoils or to enslave those who have injured him. His goal is not to capture that which belongs to someone else. He merely wants and will have what is honorably his.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Khi ai Ä'ó nói l?i khó nghe hay ??i xá»­ t? vá»›i b?n, ??ng c?m th?y b? xúc ph?m. Nó không nói lên Ä'i?u gì v? b?n nhưng l?i nói nhi?u v? h?.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
VALENE: Father Walsh, now... COLEMAN: Father Walsh, Father Walsh... WELSH (exiting, screaming): Me name's Welsh!!!
~ Martin McDonagh
Every time we look at each other or talk to each other as men and women, we should remember that the person we are talking to is a creature of God who is more like God than anything else in the universe, and men and women share that status equally.1
~ Mary A. Kassian