Pope Francis Quotes About Dignity

• How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

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  Wish, Essentials, Dignity

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. June 24, 2014.

• In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

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  Elderly, Dignity, Our Family

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

• I wish to extend an invitation to solidarity to everyone, and I would like to encourage those in public office to make every effort to give new impetus to employment, this means caring for the dignity of the person, but above all I would say do not lose hope.

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  Mean, Caring, Giving

• Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us to break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed, scandalous social inequalities. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

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  Heart, Biblical, Voice

• Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits.

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  Expression, Limits, Dignity

  "Pope Francis: freedom of expression has limits" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

• Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

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  Use, Fundamentals, Dignity

• All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.

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  Political, Dignity, Humans

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

• I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.

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  Responsibility, Two, Political

  Pope Francis‏ @Pontifex, twitter.com. May 1, 2014.

• May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

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  Men, Rights, Use

  Address of Pope Francis at the meeting with the civil authorities of Albania, w2.vatican.va. September 21, 2014.

• How many people worldwide are victims of this type of slavery, in which the person is at the service of his or her work, while work should offer a service to people so they may have dignity. I ask my brothers and sisters in faith and all men and women of good will for a decisive choice to combat trafficking in persons, which includes "slave labor."

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  Brother, Men, Slave Labor

• Every economic...acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

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  Children, Dignity, Praise

• We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

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  Brother, Home, Land

• There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.

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  Stress, Dignity Of Work, People

  Pope Francis' address to the Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice Foundation at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 25, 2013.

• Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.

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  People, Dignity, Priceless

  "Pope urges Catholic doctors to refuse abortions" by Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

• Today, elderly people are discarded when, in reality, they are the seat of wisdom of the society...the right to life means allowing people to live and not killing, allowing them to grow, to eat, to be educated, to be healed, and to be permitted to die with dignity.

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  Mean, Reality, Elderly

• Human dignity is the same for all human beings: when I trample on the dignity of another, I am trampling on my own.

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  Dignity, Humans, My Own

• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

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  Reality, Order, Leader

• In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us that people’s value is not measured by their possessions or how much money they have in the bank. A poor person, a person lacking material possessions, always maintains his or her dignity. The poor can teach us much about humility and trust in God.

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  Teacher, Real, Humility

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

• Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down.

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  Thinking, Creative, Community

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

• Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.

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  Giving, Growth, Fundamentals

  "Burning the Candle at Both Ends: A Reflection on Work in America" by Zachary Norris and Ai-jen Poo, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2014.

• Legal systems, at both the national and international level, are therefore required to recognize, guarantee and protect religious freedom, which is a right intrinsically inherent in human nature, in man's dignity as a free being, and is also an indicator of a healthy democracy and cone of the main sources of the legitimacy of the State. Religious freedom ... favors the development of relationships of mutual respect between the different Confessions and their healthy collaboration with the State and political society, without confusion of roles and without antagonism.

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  Religious, Men, Confusion

• I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected.

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  Strong, Heart, Safety

  Pope Francis @franciscus, www.instagram.com. April 28, 2016.

• It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit, which have reduced foodstuffs to a commodity like any other, subject to speculation, also of a financial nature, The hungry remain, at the street corner, and ask to be recognized as citizens, to receive a healthy diet. We ask for dignity, not for charity.

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  Nature, Struggle, Priorities

• If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each ... that's good.

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  Together, Spheres, Dignity

  Source: www.esquire.com

• There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity of work. Youth unemployment, informality, and the lack of labor rights are not inevitable; they are the result of a previous social option, of an economic system that puts profit above man; if the profit is economic, to put it above humanity or above man, is the effect of a disposable culture that considers the human being in himself as a consumer good, which can be used and then discarded.

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  Men, Rights, Dignity Of Work

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