Human Dignity Quotes

146 quotes by 106 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
... 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
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
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
[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
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 LappÃ©
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.
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
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

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