Quotes About Dignity

There was sadness in being a man, but it was a proud thing too.

When God became flesh, every ordinary human life was validated as sacred. The fact that God became human and spent most of His life in obscurity as a carpenter in a small village called Nazareth gives us perspective. Through the incarnation, we learn that every life has dignity and significance; every ordinary life matters.

All of us bear God's image, all are worthy to be loved, all can grow in the spirit of God.

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

T]he death penalty dehumanizes everyone on both sides of the equation. It dimishes everyone it touches. It is something we just shouldn't do.

Men respect standards- get some!

A woman who commands respect is a keeper; a woman who lets men get away with disrespecting her is a throwback.

Martin Luther King Jr. said something that I will always remember. He said, "A man can't ride your back unless it's bent." Don't bend over. Stay tall. Keep climbing.

Dr. Paul Farmer said it best: "The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world." Esther helped us see the truth in that statement.

I've inflicted so much pain and suffering on myself over the years. I had a piercing called a guiche. That's the part between your arsehole and your balls. You're on all fours on a gurney. Your ass in the air, your meat and two veg hanging down. Your dignity is out the window. This girl did it, tattoos all over her face. I nearly passed out with the pain.

Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty. —Jefferson Davis

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It's all about how you carry yourself.

I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.

In a perfect world, I don't think any man should slap anyone.

We will maintain the city as a slaughter-free place to promote the dignity of animal coexistence. If Seoul slaughter activity occurs again, we will use all means to block it.

My rule for the corporate stuff is the same as with my music - I do whatever means I can sleep at night and whatever means I can be dignified.

Do not slide in my DM if you broke.

I have no obligation to deal with slime.