Quotes About Dignity

We need a top-to-bottom review of every economic development and assistance program we have to ensure that they encourage everyone to strive instead of settle, because there is dignity in all work.

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.

The woman who works for a dollar a day has as much right as any other human being to say what the conditions of her work should be.

Honest work deserves honest pay.

Any work of art dignifies life.

I will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Take the high road. No matter how much strife, and consternation, frustration and anger you might be confronted with - don't go to that level.

My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. It just wasn't in him.

The people who serve your fast food lunch or your after-work drinks deserve dignity - and if big companies don't start paying them enough for a decent standard of living, they have the power to close these businesses. But no one goes on strike lightly.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.

Inequality is a poison that is destroying livelihoods, stripping families of dignity, and splitting communities.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

All lives matter, including black lives, which is a value we should be striving for rather than condemning.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence.

Back when George W. Bush was identifying his Axis of Evil, it struck me that a longer and more instructive list could be compiled of the Axis of the Humiliated (or Insulted and Injured, to borrow from Dostoevsky).

I'm drawn as well to the lower echelons of things because it struck me a long time ago that it didn't really matter on what level people were working on anything; it was just as important to them as the people working on what's perceived as a higher level.