Human Dignity Quotes
146 quotes by 106 authors
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Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity,…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the…
— Steven Biko
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So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing…
— Bono
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Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful,…
— William J. Clinton
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Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts…
— Poul Hartling
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Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
— Kim Dae-jung
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Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace…
— Ralph Bunche
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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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
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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
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Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never…
— James Thurber
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of…
— William J. Brennan
Who Wrote These Human Dignity Quotes
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