Desmond Tutu Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• 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

  Bad Day, Pride, Hands

  Source: stuart-coleman.com

• The moment our dignity is undermined, we get up in arms and want to see our dignity restored - especially if we are humiliated.

  Desmond Tutu

  Want, Arms, Dignity

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Want, Dignity

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

• Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.

  Desmond Tutu

  Grace, Dignity, Get Up

  Desmond Tutu, John Allen (1997). “The essential Desmond Tutu”, David Philip Publishers

• Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, Justice, People

  "Desmond Tutu On The Role Of Religion In The Peace Process". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.aminachaudary.com. 2010.

• Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

  Desmond Tutu

  Live Life, Dignity, Feels

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