Quotes About Dignity

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

You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'

Compassion for the mother is extremely important, but is never served through destroying the innocent.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.

I believe strongly in the rights of women... my mother is a woman, my sister is a woman, my daughter is a woman, my wife is a woman.

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Honor does not have to be defended.

Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

I cannot be a character in a bad movie. I can't be.

Life without decency is unbearable.

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.