Dignity Quotes

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 country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I see a New York where people who are down on their luck can get back on the road to responsibility, a job and dignity.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I have little shame, no dignity - all in the name of a better cause.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

Human dignity is independent of national borders. We must always defend the interests of the poor and the persecuted in other countries.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.