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Quotes About Dignity

Always respect life. Then you'll value yours. The hard part isn't turning you into a killer. The hard part is keeping you human.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives.
~ Gregory Boyle
But if all things equally fall short of this dignity, one thing there is that is not beneath the dignity of God, and that is, to do good to him that needed it.
~ Gregory of Nyssa
Si todos aceptan lavar las ofensas fácilmente, no hay honor. Ciertas cicatrices, es mejor conservarlas. Es como el olvido. Cada muerte injusta que uno olvida, cava la fosa de su propia muerte.
~ Griselda Gambaro
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
~ Grover Cleveland
Mature human do not denigrate (defame) or cherist (praise) an idea in order to feed personal worthwhile.
~ GSAN
I like to win. I like to train, but above all, I want to teach people to compete representing universal values: values based on respect and education. Giving everything while competing with dignity is a victory, whatever the scoreline suggests.
~ Guillem Balagué
Speak only that which will bring you honor.
~ Guru Nanak
Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers.
~ Gustavo Arellano
In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation of workers, permanent unemployment, the lack of respect for one's human dignity, and unjust limitations placed on personal freedom in the areas of self-expression, politics, and religion.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
The privacy of pride.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
In October 2016, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said: The use of cash-based assistance has been a real game changer in the way we help refugees and we have now decided to make it a worldwide policy and expand it to all our operations, where feasible … Refugees know best what they need. The broader use of cash-based assistance means that many more will be able to decide how to manage their family's budget. This will help them lead more dignified and normal lives.
~ Guy Standing
Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed, Nary a curse cursed he, But moved in his House. With his dark little wife, And his dark little children three.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Also, Emmanuel had a mop of snowy hair and a pure, remote look. These features helped him a lot in his work. Whatever you say it is bound to sound fuller and wiser if it is said beneath a layer of white hair. And with a pure look in a world running so much to dirt and antics whose trade mark is a blush, you can often make a whole career without ever bothering to open your mouth except to eat.
~ Gwyn Thomas
A beteg ember mindig emberebb.
~ György Spiró
Honi soit qui mal y pense' – 'Shame on him who thinks evil of this.' The phrase
~ Gyles Brandreth
Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
My message to blacks was: "It is time to stop hating who you are. God created you black—love yourself, love your hands and face, big nose and lips, for that is the only way you can love God. Blackness is God's gift to humanity.
~ James H. Cone
Well, I tell you, Son. I've had my share of fighting. It never proves anything. Anything can fight. Dogs, cats, skunks, and such things. But a man is supposed to be different. He's supposed to have some sense. I don't mind a good fight if there's something to fight for. I'd fight for you and your mother and our country, but I won't fight for foolishness
~ James H. Street
those ideas of dignity and generosity that were becoming increasingly rare in a frantic world.
~ James Hilton
If you are embarrassed about your sexuality. It must mean that you feel there is something demeaning or disgusting about being you
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Well excuse me, if I treat people like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fancy asses, and viewing them as if they were unable to stand alone.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)