Quotes About Dignity

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.

The dignity of everyday life - the beauty of it, the attitude of it - is what I live around. And it is never on screen, and it is certainly never associated with Africa. If we see Africa at all, it is always used as a backdrop: a big blob of a continent rather than a specific street or a country or a place.

I don't want to be treated outside the rule of law. And I don't want people from this part of the world, specifically North Africa and the Middle East, to be seen as underhumans, as people who are not deserving of human rights and being subjected to the rule of law, what I call open season. I don't want that anymore.

For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

A lot of money is spent trying to keep people alive who don't necessarily want to be alive.

I don't want to be the 'spice' added to a show. I'm not a condiment!

We are so resilient as a people. I have so much respect for their dignity and courage. I hope the world sees this side of Pakistan, one where professionals want a democracy. The spirit of our intelligentsia cannot be broken.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

You don't spit on people, especially people's corners.

If I must fight, I'll fight; but I prefer not to spit at my enemy beforehand.

I could not have taken what he took, sliding into second base and having a guy stand over you and spit on you, call you every name in the book. Believe me, for him not to respond, to ignore it and not retaliate, you can't say enough good about Jackie.

If I'm on fire, don't spit on me. I won't spit on you. That's respect. You go your way, and I'll go mine.

Insulting players and coaches and spitting on us is simply wrong. You cannot go out and walk around town and just start insulting people or spit at them either.

I can proudly say that I didn't spoil my father's name.

If one player can say that I, Emmanuel Adebayor, spoke badly to anyone in the changing rooms, then I'd honestly like to know who it is. It has never happened in my life.

There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

It's true. I'm not a spokesperson. But I can say now that transgendered people like to be heard and to be respected.

One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

Two ways to treat a girl: Make her feel as a princess Or Make her feel as a slave.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?

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.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

The most important thing about marriage is that the man must not let the woman feel downtrodden simply because she is a woman and he is a man.