Quotes About Dignity

Thereafter, he [Bob Ewell] resumed his regular weekly appearances at the welfare office for his cheque, and received it with no grace amid obscure mutterings that the bastards who thought they ran this town wouldn't permit an honest man to make a living.

I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco. was all Atticus said about it. According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him...Miss Stephanie said Atticus didn't bat an eye, just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr. Ewell call him names wild horses could not bring her to repeat.

A medida que crezcas, verás a los blancos estafando a los negros, todos los días de tu vida, pero te diré una cosa, y no la olvides: siempre que un hombre blanco abusa de un negro, no importa quién sea, ni cuán rico sea, ni cuán distinguida haya sido la familia de que procede, ese hombre blanco es basura.

Atticus is a gentleman, just like me!

Tidak selalu perlu menunjukkan semua yang kita ketahui. Itu bukan sikap perempuan terhormat. Kedua, orang tak suka kalau ada orang lain yang lebih tahu dari mereka. Itu membuat mereka sebal.

You folks might be better than the Cunninghams, but it doesn't count for nothing the way you're disgracing them.

you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change... it's good one, even if it does resist learning.

Copila mea, nu e niciodat? o insult? ca cineva s?-È›i spun? ceea ce socoate a fi o injurie. ÎÈ›i arat? doar cât e de josnic, f?r? s? te poat? jigni.

you just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...It's a good one, even if it does resists learning.

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Kind, du darfst dich nie beleidigt fühlen, wenn jemand dir etwas nachruft, was er als Schimpfnamen betrachtet. Das zeigt nur, was für ein armseliger Mensch der andere ist, es verletzt nicht.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down

In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's

Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' company, and don't ... remarking on their ways like you was so high and mighty. Yo' folks might be better ... bu tit don't count for nothin' the way you're discracin' 'em.

It's hard to explain - ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody's favoring Negroes over and above themselves. It's slipped into usage with some people like ourselves, when they want a common, ugly term to label somebody....baby, it's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

But to die – actually to die – that's an honour only ever granted to the living. The cost of admission.

People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.

What's really important for people, what really has dignity, is how they die. Compared to that, he thought, how you lived doesn't amount to much. Still, how you live determines how you die.

Un caballero es aquel que no habla demasiado de los impuestos que paga ni de la mujer con quien se acuesta

A gentleman doesn't talk much about the taxes he paid, or the women he sleeps with.

I'd rather be a pig than a fascist

There is no real dignity in any of these costumes. If I'm a maid, I do what the owner of the house tells me to do. If I'm a nurse, I do whatever the doctor tells me to do. What are we as women, other than barnacles that attach themselves to higher life forms in some pathetic attempt to clean up messes? Tidy up what men have left behind- make the world a lovelier, better place for men. I would like to play a part in which I don't have a superior.

Seriousness shows itself more majestically when laughter leads the way.

Maybe there are just some men like that in the world, I thought. Men who have to be in charge, who have to punish those who awaken feelings in them which they cannot control. Men who will lure you with tenderness till you believe that you are safe then slap you down. Men whom it is impossible for anyone to love without losing their dignity. Men who have to damage those who love them most. But, then, I had fallen on love with one, so what did that make me?