Quotes about Respect
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor has dignity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn't do his job, diseases are rampant.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real tragedy of such narrow provincialism is that we see people as entities or merely as things. Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and worth and should be pursued with respect for excellence.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Negro knows he is right. he has not organized for conquest or to gain spoils or to enslave those who have injured him. His goal is not to capture that which belongs to someone else. He merely wants and will have what is honorably his.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.