Quotes About Dignity

I just want people to respect the privacy of my relatives in Taiwan. ... They need to live their lives as well.

Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

I demand my right to a private life, just as I respect that right for everybody else.

A real man isn't somebody who takes advantage of a young girl but who treats her with respect.

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

We are all humans and all deserve the same respect and attention.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Don't show arrogance anyone & never let anyone show you

I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.

People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

Respect is a one way street, it goes from bottom to top

Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it's self respect.

When is the last time you got angry at someone treating you with respect?

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.