Quotes about Dignity
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
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed
— Hillary Clinton
She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
— Edith Wharton
Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.
— Edith Wharton
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
— Albert Camus
The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness.
— Myles Munroe