Quotes About Dignity

They strip-searched me!" he burst out. "Me! Old enough to be their grandfather and they made me stand naked in the road, my things all unpacked in the mud!

the effort to uphold human dignity within this concept of food ministry is not to be underestimated.

Tea?" Daniel asked, signaling to the innkeeper. "Please. Or anything that is hot." She pulled off her gloves, pausing to frown at a little hole that was growing at the tip of her right forefinger. That wouldn't do. She needed all the dignity she could muster in that finger. Heaven knew she shook it at the girls often enough.

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Certain individuals you don't attack. You run from.

I don't know that the United States is 'God's Country,' but the church has been so strong here, and because of its influence, we hold life to be sacred and we believe that individuals have dignity. This is part of our legacy.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

You cannot write-off someone and consider them inferior in any way based on how much money they make.

Women are inferior to none.

The Universal Declaration of Human rights is a transformational document that recognizes the inherent dignity and equal rights of all people.

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

Work does have some value and some dignity, but I don't think working 14 hours and not being able to pay your bills, or working two jobs and not being able - there's nothing inherently dignified about that.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

You cannot put a song - you cannot put a person's talent over somebody's humanity. That's just insane.

I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home.

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

The Sanders Institute will not be taking any potshots at people.

Every institution has its own dignity, and if people don't respect the dignity of those institutions, it affects the whole system.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

It's very insulting when you're in charge and someone is talking down to you.

Insulting people doesn't make you brave, bold, cool or courageous.