Quotes About Dignity

El miedo no es vergonzoso, sólo lo es la cobardía.

But imagine how he'd feel if you said that to him. It's not considering him as a person but as part of a class of inferior things.

We've been looking for a conscience of what we are. . . . We don't have enough weapons to overcome oppression and never will, although it's our duty to fight whenever our survival and our honor have to be defended. But our weapon must be the mind, each and every one's mind, which must not be dominated and have to assert itself. Our objective is not really equality, rather, it's justice, freedom, pride, dignity, good coexistence.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Poverty doesn't make anyone an inferior being.

Well I don't care how other people live" I said. "If they want to let their men sleep around, that's their business. But I'll be damned if I'll put up with it. Not good enough for me, and no way I want Noah growing up thinking that's how you treat a woman. Ruger can take his offer, stick it on a fork, and shove it up his ass. Now I need to find a job and somewhere to live, because I'm sure as hell not living with him any longer.

One of her in dirty sweats is worth ten of you naked on your knees, so get the fuck out.

Someday I'd be classy if it killed me—probably not today, though.

Grave Senators should never let Their angry passions rise, Their little hands were never made To scratch each other's eyes.52

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

From what I've seen, a girl's got to behave like a mental midget before she'll get any action in this town. If resisting that makes me a freak, so be it. I may die with my hymen intact, but at least I'll have my dignity" ~ Confessions of a Triple Shot Betty

Treat a man like a dog and sooner or later he'll bite you,

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

All human life must be regarded as sacred, or one's own may be endangered as well.

The world,' said he, pursuing this train of thought, 'ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence. Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class -- it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

Only the Black woman can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.

His voice shifted into a sexual purr. "I love you. And I've waited a lifetime to be your lover. But you were too young, Lady." She raised her head, her body stiff with dignity. "I wasn't too young here, in the abyss." Slowly, he continued moving around the altar. "Your body had been violated. Your mind had shattered. But even if that hadn't been the case, you were still too young—even here in the abyss.

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honour with hers? Think! it is a serious thing.

Look at me. This is nobility in a man: to bear what falls from the gods and not say No.

One of the first lessons I learned after marriage was, "Don't lie, but don't tell everything". It allows a certain amount of dignity to remain in the relationship. It is also a kindness.