Quotes About Dignity

valuable—"I am a valuable person

Que as pernas também são pessoas, apenas inferiores aos braços, e valem de si mesmas, quando a cabeça não as rege por meio de idéias. As minhas chegaram ao pé do muro.

Um homem verdadeiramente grave não pode gastar menos de dois minutos em tirar o lenço e assoar-se.

Não nos dispersaremos. Se quereis os nossos cadáveres, podeis tomá-los; mas só os cadáveres; não levareis a nossa honra, o nosso crédito, os nossos direitos, e com eles a salvação de Itaguaí.

There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Rules are made for people, not people for rules

If you have some liniment I'll put it on my dignity

Instead of rejoicing in this glorious "impossible" which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty actions comprehensible to our finite minds.

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It matters that you care enough about yourself and about the people you meet to present yourself well

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

If I fall down the stairs," she added in a low dry voice, "and end up sprawled at the bottom in front of all those swells, I'm going to pretend that I'm dead. You tell someone to haul me off to the nearest boardinghouse, then go have your supper.

the kind of man who referred to everyone he worked with as eminent.)

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment

You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

Man is an end in himself.

Respect all men but fear none.

I walk, talk and act like a king even though I know there's no royalty in my bloodline

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.

I am a nobody trying to be a somebody by not riding or pulling down anybody.

Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.

The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.