Quotes About Dignity

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage

I will never be able to wash this dirt from my name. You can't be very bright," he said. "How can you make something clean from something dirty? And now, you have made me dirty," Noa said quietly,

You are very brave, Noa. Much, much braver than me. Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.

Viver todos os dias na presença daqueles que se recusam a reconhecer sua humanidade exige muita coragem.

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage." Noa

My mother passed away in 2011. She was a warm and sociable person, but she did not suffer fools. In fact, that policy extended beyond fools. She did not suffer lazy people, pretentious people, liars, the sloppy, or the inarticulate. Basically she suffered very few people, and it was hard to earn her respect. But

We are de facto diplomats who have to be able to communicate with anyone. But this doesn't mean we are doormats.

I was thoroughly fed up with the system. I had followed the rules for all these years, but there was no way I could stay in the system and do what I wanted to do. The whole reason why the organization of Gion Kobu had been systematized in the first place was to ensure the dignity and financial independence of the women who worked there. Yet the strictures of the Inoue School kept us subservient to its authority. There was no room for any sort of autonomy.

The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.

Truques insistentment a moltes portes però ja saps que no hi haurà resposta. Doncs bé, que cadascú recullo el seu cadàver i, si pot, miri de fer-se un enterrament digne, presentable.

dressing well was also a sign of respect, for yourself and for others.

Do not answer with the answer of silence! Do not attack one who does not attack you.

When you walk behind officials, Follow at a proper distance. When you enter a man's house. And he's busy with someone before you, Sit with your hand over your mouth. Do not ask him for anything, Only do as he tells you, Beware of rushing to the table Be weighty and very dignified, Do not speak of secret things, Who hides his thought shields himself. Do not say things recklessly, When you sit with one who's hostile.

Ladies suffer like maidservants.

sve za obraz, a obraz ni za Å¡to! Glavu daj, a obraza ne daj!

I ptice padaju umorne i ne lete vje?no. Zašto da ljudi neprekidno lebde iznad svog dostojanstva?

Modest women have rights too, Coach,' I can't help adding.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

Feminism" means taking for granted that woman and man are meant to complement each other while sharing equal dignity, equal rights, and equal humanity—nothing more and nothing less.

A particular young woman became critically important in the working out of our salvation precisely because she was and remains a woman. Thus, all women—because they are women—share in the honor and dignity of that one young woman. It was a young woman that the Creator of the universe chose, and upon whose word he waited, before the course of salvation could continue.

The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.

Always choose life. A demeaned life is better than the best death.