Quotes About Dignity

I just can't smile at people for money.

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.

Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

I want a society free of human trafficking

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!

Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.

We are told of the honor of the army; we are supposed to love and respect it. Ah, yes, of course, an army that would rise to the first threat, that would defend French soil, that army is the nation itself, and for that army we have nothing but devotion and respect. But this is not about that army, whose dignity we are seeking, in our cry for justice. What is at stake is the sword, the master that will one day, perhaps, be forced upon us. Bow and scrape before that sword, that god? No!

De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you.

Usted no encuentra, pues, odioso, despreciable, que una mujer abandone a su marido y a sus hijas para seguir a un hombre cualquiera, del que nada sabe, ni siquiera si es digno de su amor? ¿Puede usted realmente excusar una conducta tan atolondrada y liviana en una mujer que, además, no es ya una jovencita y que siquiera por amor a sus hijas hubiese debido preocuparse de su propia dignidad?

Robbing humans of their faces and individuality is no less a form of evil than diminishing their dignity or looking for threats primarily among those who have immigrated or harbour different religious beliefs.

You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.