Quotes About Dignity

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity

As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.

We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.

We must remain human, even in the most difficult times … Because, despite everything, there must always be humanity within us. We have to bring it to others.

Moral courage is the highest expression of humanity.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

To define each of us by our race is nothing short of a denial of our humanity.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master, it's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important.

We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

If you believe people have no history worth mentioning, it's easy to believe they have no humanity worth defending

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

...the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity.