Quotes about Dignity
God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
— Nelson Mandela
I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I love to see people just being regal in their own skin; it's just when they know who they are.
— Ava DuVernay
Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter. As you press for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the instruments of love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
— Booker T. Washington
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
— Booker T. Washington
I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
— Booker T. Washington
I think that whether someone is a Christian or not, the idea that a human life has dignity and intrinsic worth should be clear enough.
— Mike Huckabee
The daughters of God don't brake for jerks.
— Marianne Williamson