Quotes About Dignity

I felt that the Church was the Church of the poor,... but at the same time, I felt that it did not set its face against a social order which made so much charity in the present sense of the word necessary. I felt that charity was a word to choke over. Who wanted charity? And it was not just human pride but a strong sense of man's dignity and worth, and what was due to him in justice, that made me resent, rather than feel pround of so mighty a sum total of Catholic institutions.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.

If you think your honor demands you kill every dog that barks at you...you will only find yourself spending all your time chasing dogs. There is no honor in that.

If I had a girl, I'd want her to know that she can be anything she wants and that she doesn't have to rely on her looks or clothes or hair or make-up to define who she is or to get respect from other people. I'd want her to know she has a right to be respected or noticed because she was born. I'm not talking about all the girl power nonsense, I'm talking about my girl growing up knowing she has the right to be treated decently simply because she was born.

There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off.

True submission never grovels, and true authority never accepts flattery.

Oscar Wilde once defined a gentleman as one who never insulted somebody else accidentally.

To mock the color of a man's skin is to defy the handiwork of God.

There is no such thing as 'invisible' honor or respect.

Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn't honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.

Our is a battle; not for wealth, nor for power. Ours is battle; for freedom; for reclamation of human personality.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.

Black women suck it best

A person's a person, no matter how small.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

We should strive to treat each other with common Human Decency

Please don't harm all my little folks, who Have as much right to live as us bigger folks do!

A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will NOT have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

Diss me and youll never hear a reply for it.

You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.