Dignity Quotes - Page 4

• Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Ignorance, Hiding, Mask

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

  Coretta Scott King

  Racism, People, Humanity

  Chicago Defender newspaper, April 01, 1998.

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• And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

  Michelle Obama

  Hard Work, People, Want

  Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 25 August 2008, INVESCO Field at Mile High Stadium, Denver, Colorado

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• What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Vanity, Expression

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• To hide feelings when you are near crying
  Is the secret of dignity.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Feelings, Secret, Cry

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Politeness, Subservience

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• Let us not accept violence as the way of peace. Let us instead begin by respecting true freedom: the resulting peace will be able to satisfy the world's expectations, for it will be a peace built on justice, a peace founded on the incomparable dignity of the free human being.

  Pope John Paul II

  Freedom, Justice, Expectations

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• Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, War

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• Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, And Love, Individual Morality

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• Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

  Jose Bergamin

  Confused, Pride, Men

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• I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

  Christine Gregoire

  Mean, Heart, Rights

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• If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Water, Movement

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• When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

  Thabo Mbeki

  Purpose, Sun, Tomorrow

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• It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Time, Female, Revolution

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.113, Oxford University Press

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• Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Cutting, Loss, Humanity

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1848). “The popular works of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, tr., with a memoir of the author by W. Smith”, p.218

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• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Friendship, Share

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• The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Opportunity, Government, People

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• ..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Respect, Law, Organization

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• We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.

  Dominique de Menil

  Tolerate, Ifs, Loses

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• RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Character, Ridicule, Shows

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.201, University of Georgia Press

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• Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Character, Remember

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (32), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Men, Personal Dignity

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• Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

  Rick Bragg

  Inspirational, Life, Shells

  Rick Bragg (2010). “All Over but the Shoutin'”, p.21, Vintage

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• Honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Success, Honesty, Work

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Uplifting, Work, Teaching

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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