Quotes About Dignity

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

As a black man, I have to respect myself and have nice things. As a man in general.

Respect me, or put me to death.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

Respect is not given, it is earned.

You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

Men are respectable only as they respect.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.

I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

You can always win points. Winning people's respect is a lot more important.

Treat every person you interact with, with the same sort of attention and respect which you hope they will give to you.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man's skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

It is not sufficient to be worthy of respect in order to be respected.

Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.

Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.