Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect… — Salvatore J. Cordileone Copy Share Image
Civilized people - Muslims, Christians and Jews - all understand that the source of freedom and human dignity is the Creator. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
“The death of a person is not some number. Everyone's lives must have meaning. What's written here is something you could never… — Kafka Asagiri Copy Share Image
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Stalin has stolen more than lands. Hannelore, he has stolen human dignity. I see it in their forlorn eyes and broken posture.… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
I will never tire of repeating this: what the poor need the most is not pity but love. They need to feel… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or… — Ralph Bunche Copy Share Image
On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
As Americans we place special emphasis on human dignity, justice and freedom. WE measure as good of bad that which meets these… — Henry Clausen Copy Share Image
“When the culture of any organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Tyranny is a habit; it may develop, and it does develop at last, into a disease. I maintain that the very best… — Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“For if there are no waving flags and marching songs at the barricades as Walter marches out with his little battalion, it… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“I am a collection of water, calcium and organic molecules called Carl Sagan. You are a collection of almost identical molecules with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him-mentally and spiritually. He may retain his human… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“We have retreated from the perennial values. I don't think that we need any new values. The most important thing is to… — Mikhail S. Gorbachev Copy Share Image
“Jawaharlal Nehru, who wrote in a 1936 letter to an Englishman, Lord Lothian, that British rule is ‘based on an extreme form… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“The particular myth that's been organizing this talk, and in a way the whole series, is the story of the Tower of… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
