Dignity Quotes
1666 quotes by 1060 authors
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I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the…
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health…
— Ralph Bunche
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Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in…
— Pope John Paul II
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I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.
— Harry S. Truman
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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as…
— Immanuel Kant
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..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Labour markets are about people. And people have a right to be treated with dignity and respect.
— Juan Somavia
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We respect the dignity and the rights of every man and every nation. The path to a brighter future of the world leads through honest…
— Lech Walesa
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The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But…
— William O. Douglas
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It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (December 1948) in most solemn form, the dignity of a person is acknowledged to all human beings; and…
— Pope John XXIII
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Our interconnectedness on the planet is the dominating truth of the 21st century. One stark result is that the world's poor live, and especially die,…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence of the Church.…
— Unknown Author
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Having visited Oxfam-funded school programs in rural communities has made me realise how vital education is to developing countries in bringing people out of poverty…
— Scarlett Johansson
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A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.
— Eduardo Chillida
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The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there…
— Doris Humphrey
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With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such…
— Paul Robeson
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Your life is a sacred journey. It is about change, growth, discovery, movement, transformation, continuously expanding your vision of what is possible, stretching your soul,…
— Unknown Author
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Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freemen with votes in their hands are left without education. Justice to…
— Robert Charles Winthrop
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