Quotes About Dignity

As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.

It's a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.

My guiding principle has always been that we do better when we respect one another.

Slavery is perhaps the greatest affront to the fundamental principle of individual liberty.

Whatever my faults, I have some principles.

I'm a guy of strong principles and I think people respect that.

It's crucial that we keep care for our seniors a priority.

In prison, you're issued a number of sanitary pads per month. And many times, even when you're issued a number of sanitary pads, the guards will just come in and rip your room apart, rip your locker apart and take them.

Everybody knows that prison is not a good place for anyone, and nobody would feel proud to be there. But I'd like to mention that I was treated really well in there.

I don't want to leave prison having been pardoned, but rather with my head held high, with dignity.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.

I have not worked with farmers. I have not worked with prisoners. I have only worked with human beings. I didn't see anybody as anything other than that.

A feeling of self worth is the best accomplishment we can foster in our prisons.

Privacy is not for sale, and human rights should not be compromised out of fear or greed.

I respect people's privacy.

Some of the occurrences leading up to and immediately following the Berlin World Championships have infringed not only my rights as an athlete but also my fundamental and human rights, including my rights to dignity and privacy.

There should be respect and privacy for any dead person.

It is natural for me not to explain my private life or to answer any questions about my private life.

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life.

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

We are driven by the belief that every person in this world matters and access to better health is a right, not a privilege.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.