Dignity Quotes

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If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What… — Charles Alexander Eastman
Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally.… — Gerald May
In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course… — Douglas MacArthur
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. — Arthur Ashe
Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define a good… — Leo Buscaglia
One cannot run from a challenge without losing. To flee is signing a death warrant to dignity and character, and, having run, there is no… — Sigurd F. Olson
Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as they are because,… — Vaclav Havel
They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. — Herman Melville
As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or… — Dalai Lama
When the dignity of one person is denied, all of us are denied. — Hubert H. Humphrey
Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not… — Mother Teresa
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It's part of life. Aging offers great lessons in dignity, since the indignity wins in the end.… — Diane Lane
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity. — Cesar Chavez
Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity. — Cesar Chavez
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself,… — Cesar Chavez
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… — Cesar Chavez
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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