Quotes about Dignity
Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
- Malala Yousafzai
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
- Abraham Lincoln
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...
- Frederick Douglass
Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
- Mother Teresa
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
- Kerry Washington
To treat anyone as if they were less than human, less than a brother or a sister, no matter what they have done, is to contravene the very laws of our humanity.
- Desmond Tutu
Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.
- Elie Wiesel
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
- Desmond Tutu
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
- Desmond Tutu
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
- Ronald Reagan
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
- Mark Twain