Quotes About Dignity

The theory behind our [Negro] tactics: The white man is always trying to know into somebody else's business. All right, I'll set something outside the door of my mind for him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho' can't read my mind. I'll put this play to in his hand, and he will seize it and go away. Then I'll say my say and sing my song.

Tain't in uh man tuh kiss foot long. Mouf kissin' is on uh equal and dat's natural but when dey got to bow down tuh love, dey soon straightens up.

Use, don't abuse.

They don't pay me enough to take any racial abuse. If you come up to me and say something racially, I'm going to take your head off.

Abuse is not love. That's no way to treat a woman.

My dad persevered and always took the high road and was accountable, and I respect and honor him for that.

In order to advance in this world, you need to have respect for yourself.

You have to help people who are living with AIDS. Help them to live as dignified a life as they can.

All Americans are taught, and hopefully believe, in the idea that we are all created equal and should be treated that way.

Pride is an amazing thing.

I don't consider myself a celebrity. I don't think I'm better than somebody else. I'm just a human being like anyone else.

I think I am like anyone else. I respect other people and, of course, I expect that it works the other way around.

I've got nothing to be ashamed of.

I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

I'm not ashamed to be gay.

Journalism may say or suppose anything, and our dignity forbids us even to reply.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Prudenta lui ii egala averea. Era de o umilinta excesiva. Niciodata orgoliul nu-l prinsese in capcanele sale. Acest negustor se facea atat de mic, de bland, de placut si de sarac la curte, in fata printeselor, regilor si favoritilor, incat aceasa modestie si bonomie ii pazisera afacerea.

To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him.

Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Si usted es querido alguna vez como yo lo fui, y ultraja como yo lo hice, comprenderá toda la pureza viril que hay en mi recuerdo.

De ce accept?m s? coabit?m cu mîrlanii, cu guja?ii, cu escrocii, cu nesim?i?ii? De ce?!!! Democra?ie f?r? discriminare moral? e populism, adic? contrariul spiritului civil. (...) Canaliile, pro?tii, ignarii, scandalagii, inep?ii au devenit deodat?, cu to?ii, din vina noastr?, a civiliza?iilor, frecventabili. E aberant, e complet gre?it. Cu derbedeii nu te înso?e?ti, darmite s? te înh?itezi.