Quotes About Dignity

The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

The Tories should treat working families with more respect.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.

There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

No conditions justify torture.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

all human beings, regardless of gender, status, wealth, and religion, are born equally free and with the right to the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property and the right to the pursuit of happiness.

We get a whole lifetime to learn just one lesson," Samuel Cane said. "How to lose with dignity.

There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity — pushes off hope like a boat without a rower, and lets it go as it will on the stream, and resigns himself to the tally stick of pain.

I was so affected by hearing another human speak to me with grace and respect.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Life, Liberty.

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Whitemen in the main just see slaves and Indians. They don't see the single souls. How all are emperors to those that love them.

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.

The purpose of Life is a simple task which is simply to worship god, however the journey of life is hard on this earth. The individuals who completes this simple goal with dignity, patience and love is a true winner.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

She had never liked people who spoke too familiarly upon first meeting. There ought to be a little bit more formality.

On the contrary, there is something pleasing about his mouth when he speaks. And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.

Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

And there is something of dignity in the way his trousers cling to those most English parts of him.