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Quotes About Dignity

the mad have a grace all their own
~ Kim Harrison
The mad have a grace all their own.
~ Kim Harrison
Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
It is simply my sense of honour that keeps me afloat now. But it is strong enough too; at least, it has kept me up to date.
~ Knut Hamsun
Was there something of the deamer, or a certain dignity, about Abel? Not a scrap. A tiny squirrel, as quick as lightning, a daredevil with every limb in a state of commotion. He would be seen simultaneously up by the church and down on the shore; he never walked if there was the faintest possibility of running. It was hurry hurry, his great boots thundering along the street.
~ Knut Hamsun
The bottom line is that insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.
~ Kresley Cole
Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God's image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.
~ Jean Vanier
There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
~ Frank Zappa
The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent.
~ Malcolm X
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
~ Desmond Tutu
We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.
~ Mack Sennett
Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, # humility .
~ Nouman Ali Khan
Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.
~ Ramsey Clark
Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.
~ Pope Leo X
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.
~ WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.
~ Herman Melville
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
~ Thomas Watson
Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.
~ Alice Schwarzer
To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity.
~ Yann Martel
Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.
~ Tariq Ramadan
Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.
~ Pope Francis
Religion gives a dignity to distress.
~ James Hervey
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.
~ Mikhail Bakunin