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Human Dignity Quotes by William J. Brennan
- 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…
- The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most…
- If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived…
- One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution.…
More Human Dignity Quotes
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — 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… — 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… — Bono
- Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of… — 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.… — Poul Hartling
- Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social… — 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… — Ralph Bunche
- Human rights, human freedoms, and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world. These values are as powerful as… — Vaclav Havel
- Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and… — Mother Teresa
- Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is… — Colin Powell
- ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of… — Philip Zimbardo