Quotes About Dignity

If I must be sold, or all the people on the place, and everything go to rack, why, let me be sold. I s'pose I can bar it as well as any on 'em," he added, while something like a sob and a sigh shook his broad, rough chest convulsively. "Mas'r always found me on the spot—he always will. I never have broke trust, nor used my pass no ways contrary to my word, and I never will. It's better for me alone to go, than to break up the place and sell all.

Ye know, Mas'r George, ye oughtenter feel 'bove nobody, on 'count yer privileges, 'cause all our privileges is gi'n to us; we ought al'ays to 'member that," said Aunt Chloe, looking quite serious.

My master! and who made him my master? That's what I think of—what right has he to me? I'm a man as much as he is. I'm a better man than he is.

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.

for me to ask for a raise is—is demeaning.

You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.

We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Don't make a noise for your actions, let your actions speak for you.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

With her love of finery, her unmade beds, her litters of unfinished scrapbooks, her taboos, superstitions, and prudishness, her remarkable dignity, her pity for the persecuted, her awe of the gentry, and her detailed knowledge of the family trees of all the Royal Houses of Europe, she was a disorganized mass of unreconciled denials, a servant girl born to silk. Yet in spite of all this, she fed our oafish wits with steady, imperceptible shocks of beauty. Though

I think it's funny when people assume that I have to put up with their insulting shit to my face. Rude awakening, table for one please.

Calmness of will is a sign of grandeur.

Three things characterize man: person, fate, merit--the harmony of these constitutes real grandeur.

Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

You can demand courtesy but you have to earn respect.

To have respect for ourselves guides our morals; and to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Death strips all men of dignity.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.