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Quotes About Dignity

A wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything, including her mouth.
~ Twinkle Khanna
It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.
~ Toussaint Louverture
I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
~ Lady Gaga
The more I see, hear, and think in Europe, the more I wish for every measure that can ensure to the United States dignity, power, and public confidence.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
I wish I could be elegant.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek's energy and Bharti Singh's wit. They are infectious and selfless.
~ Amruta Khanvilkar
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
~ Frederick Douglass
Within the soul of America is freedom of mind and spirit in man. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone is human dignity not a dream but an accomplishment. Perhaps it is not perfect, but it is more full in realization here than any other place in the world.
~ Herbert Hoover
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
~ Malala Yousafzai
When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness.
~ Ausonius
Obama has no way to conceal that Osama was executed in front of his children and wives, who are now under the custody of the authorities of Pakistan, a Muslim country of almost 200 million inhabitants, whose laws have been violated, its national dignity offended, and its religious traditions desecrated.
~ Fidel Castro
Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?
~ Faith Salie
I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood power.
~ Russell M. Nelson
I hope we have a whole lot of healthy men out there impacting their wives and daughters with a sense of value and dignity. They can have a huge impact. It takes a secure man to breed that sense of security in his family.
~ Beth Moore
A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.
~ Maya Angelou
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
~ Aretha Franklin
My plea is that don't wait for a girl to become a woman to empower them. Empower a girl's life by giving sanitary pads to them. With pads, we give them wings.
~ Arunachalam Muruganantham
I am a woman above everything else.
~ Jackie Kennedy
I always respect a woman.
~ Enrique Iglesias
You should never put your hands on a woman, under any circumstances.
~ Robert Parish
A REAL man would never lead a woman on, try to humiliate or hurt them, or try to intimidate them once you have broken up for the sake of more camera time or fame.
~ Kenya Moore
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
~ Mahatma Gandhi