All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The struggle for human rights is at its core a struggle for human dignity. — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. — Nelson Mandela 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
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom. — Hubert H. Humphrey 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
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
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
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
Without the values at the core of Christianity and other world religions, without moral norms that have been shaped over millennia, people… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Torture anywhere is an affront to human dignity everywhere... I call on all governments to join with the United States and the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“It is easy enough to see why women came to object to the role of Blondie, a mostly decorative custodian of a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In the anarchist milieu, communism, individualism, collectivism, mutualism and all the intermediate and eclectic programmes are simply the ways considered best for… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
“"revolutionary suicide does not mean that i and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. we have such… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
“I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe… — Bryan Stevenson 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
“The age old idea of human dignity comes to apply even to the indigent, even to the slaves, even to immigrants, now… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“The leaves did not stir on the trees, cicadas twanged, and the monotonous muffled sound of the sea that rose from below… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“When he was twenty-three years old, he (George Fox) saw the inner light in a vision. For him it symbolized the spirit… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“Things change when hearts and minds across the country change. Things change when social movements begin, when people’s understandings change, when families… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“Slavery's fundamental offense against human rights was not that it took liberty away (which can happen in many other situations), but that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Why do we need to be pardoned? What are we to be pardoned for? For not dying of hunger? For not accepting… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
“I am a convinced advocate of economic and social equality because I know that, without it, liberty, justice, human dignity, morality, and… — Mikhail Bakunin 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