Quotes About Dignity

Never compromise yourself.

I don't compromise at all on how people lead and manage other people. I don't want to work in an environment where people are belittled and berated.

It took me months or maybe a year to understand that there are so many cheap men out there who would ask you to 'compromise' or 'oblige.'

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

No living being should have to endure conditions that you wouldn't put on your worst enemy.

It doesn't matter how I conduct myself or what I wear or how I speak or where I sit or what I do. That does not allow anybody to harass me.

Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.

I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don't have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.

I feel no one has the right to click pictures of anyone without their consent.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

There should be consequences that happen when you say things about people, especially racist things.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

I believe that nothing so arbitrary as money should be able to come between a person and the means of survival. And that's a really fancy way of saying that it doesn't matter if you're poor - you should have top-quality health care.

I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you recognize it, do you abide by that, do you define yourself as that? Based on who we are and what we've been through and how we survive and where we stand, we are on kind of sacred ground. We stand on the backs of our ancestors.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people - they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.

I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections are an integral part of sustaining millions of seniors' health and dignity.

Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

I don't drink in public. I don't swear on TV. All I want is for people to say Chris Eubank is an all-right guy.