Quotes about Dignity
But if all things equally fall short of this dignity, one thing there is that is not beneath the dignity of God, and that is, to do good to him that needed it.
— Gregory of Nyssa
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman. At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.
— Justin Welby
Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.
— Desmond Tutu
A woman's rank Lies in the fulness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.
— George Eliot
Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights.
— Hillary Clinton
I think a lot of women wouldn't want to stay in a place where they're being harassed.
— Donald Trump
If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls.
— Michelle Obama
He is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
— Thomas Jefferson