Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and… — Steven Seagal Copy Share Image
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“All people must at all times have the complete freedom to decide where and how to live” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
When you do stand-up, you're just concerned with trying to leave with some semblance of human dignity at the end of your… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. — Federica Montseny Copy Share Image
Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries. — Kjell Magne Bondevik Copy Share Image
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it? — Ai Weiwei 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
“Our responsibility before God is an inalienable aspect of our human dignity. Its final expression will be on the day of judgment.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will,… — Tim O'Brien 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
Human rights are being violated in so many places. But we don't give up because we know respect for human rights and… — Antonio Guterres 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
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
The message of the United States is not nuclear power. The message of the United States is a spiritual message. It is… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has… — Alfred Kinsey 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
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
“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
Malcolm X envisions a broad-based pluralistic united front, which is spearheaded by the Nation of Islam, but mobilizing integrationist organizations, non-political organizations,… — Manning Marable 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
“Women are inherently crooked? Certainly some Muslim clerics think so—or at least, they do not believe in legal equality for women. Bangladeshi… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
“In this confusion we begin to see what lies behind John Paul II's startling warning about democracy "effectively mov[ing] towards a form… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue that is enjoined upon us. So far as the artist is concerned, with good reason; indeed, when he… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Luz Castro "And then i explain that the world did know and remained silent. and that is why I swore never to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“--"And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why… — Élie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“There are people who thirst for blood like tigers. Any man who has once tasted this unlimited power over the blood, over… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image