Quotes about Dignity
We must never forget the value of work because without it people are denied a sense of dignity and of community.
— Chuka Umunna
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.
— Pope Benedict XVI
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
— George Bernard Shaw
I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in.
— Barack Obama
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.
— Desmond Tutu
Most poor people I know are proud and really want not a handout but a hand up. They do have an inherent pride and dignity, and we should treat them as those who have fallen on bad days.
— Desmond Tutu
One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.
— Thomas Jefferson
To give my freedom blindly to a being equal to or inferior to myself is to degrade myself and throw away my freedom. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. If
— Thomas Merton