Dignity Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image “Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dignity Freedom Liberty Respect Shows Speak Survival
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is. — Will Muschamp Copy Share Image
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is… — John Peter Altgeld Copy Share Image
The right to be able to speak openly and confidentially to another is, at times, codified legally if not ethically. — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what… — Will Muschamp Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Someone has to stand up and speak for the freedoms of the little guy. — Christopher Monckton Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
A man, as a man, could arrive at all the dignity that a man was capable of obtaining or receiving; but it needed a… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God. — Rumi Copy Share Image