Quotes About Dignity

I was never in an awkward position where I had to curb my manhood.

I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of stuff, because you don't have to do that. You don't have to act like that, and you don't have to live like that in order to be successful.

Creating systems where people feel like they're being punished for things they didn't do wrong breaks all kinds of trust and makes people feel like they're not being treated with dignity.

I refuse to discuss tabloid rumors.

I consider myself allergic to gossip and tabloids, and go out of my way to avoid them.

When I played and got abused by another player, called a 'black so and so,' I always said 'that's out of order' but I tried to ignore it. I'd be thinking: 'You're not going to bring me down to that level.' But there were occasions when something was said and the next tackle went in a lot firmer.

I'm not a tacky person, I think.

I would never speak about specifics in my own relationships because I think it's tacky.

Our self-respect does not have a price tag.

I will not allow either my good name or the good name of the company I founded and love to be unfairly tainted.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

I come from a blue-collar town - and being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you. You don't let people mistreat you. You stand up for what's right.

When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.

Don't be naive and allow a man to take advantage of you.

Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

I was taught to believe that the most dishonorable thing a Meredith could do was work in a white woman's kitchen and take care of a white man's child. I knew I would starve to death rather than do either.

The wrong idea has taken root in the world. And the idea is this: there just might be lives out there that matter less than other lives.

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

I dish the dirt out, and I can take it. But why should my mother and children have to take it? In 20 years, I have taken any number of stories, most of which are not true, without a murmur of complaint. But some stories you have to draw the line and say No.

We've shown people that you don't have to be taken for granted. You don't have to settle for less!

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.

The thing with me is if I feel disrespected I won't hesitate to fight. But it takes a lot to make me feel disrespected.

To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time.