“Communism produces neither dignity nor prosperity. It takes all power away from the people and places it in the hands of a self-appointed elite. And because it distorts and manipulates the distinctive talents of individuals rather than letting those talents flourish, it prevents progress and prosperity.” PeopleSelfHandsIndividualProgressTalentProduceDignityProsperityCommunismElitesManipulateDistinctive Author:Margaret Thatcher
“A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.” PeopleDignityDeniedDeprived Author:Ali Mazrui
“The interesting scope of Mark Twain's development as a human being is that he grew. He saw, he travelled, he studied this country and later the world with the eye of a man educating himself. This is a central fact in the Mark Twain legacy. He became an American spokesman for the ideals of racial equality and dignity for the working man because he was willing to look the world in its face and see, really see what was happening to the people in it.” PeopleMenWorldHumansLooksCountryFactsEyeFacesHuman BeingsInterestingSawsWillingGrewDevelopmentHappeningsIdealsDignityMarkLegacyScopeWorking ManRacial Equality Author:Hal Holbrook
“You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.” PeopleThinkingLooksPlayProblemCitiesOrdinaryDignityAbsolutesNotionFatsFallenLos AngelesTomsScornCruiseBrando Author:Matthew Specktor
“The United States is guilty. We're not treating people fairly. We're not treating people with dignity. Building a wall is an affront and an insult, and we have no right.” PeopleStatesUnitedUnited StatesBuildingWallDignityGuiltyInsultAffront Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We, the United States, have to be guilty. We have to be guilty. We have to be underperforming. We have to be not showing compassion or dignity or whatever code word is used to transmit the notion that we're mean-spirited, that we're selfish, and that we're probably bigoted and racist and don't want people here like that.” PeopleWantMeanStatesUsedUnitedCompassionUnited StatesDignityNotionSelfishGuiltyCodeRacistTransmitSpiritedMean Spirited Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveStatesUnitedUnited StatesDignityGreekOrthodoxPopeRecognizingAttackingGreek Orthodox Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.” PeopleCountryPathPeriodsDignityWorkersOur CountryAspireCitizenshipIncentivesUndocumented Workers Author:Jeb Bush
“We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.” PeopleIfsWantSoulShowsCan DoAttentionQualityVirtueGainsDignityFortuneWorthyTricksEsteemInnateUnworthyGreat PeopleWardrobeParadesShowing OffEminence Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“Boxing is just to introduce me to the struggle. Like, when I speak I draw people in the States to teach them various things or to give them dignity, pride and self-help. I have to help the dope and prostitution problem.” PeopleGivingSelfStatesHelpingProblemSpeakTeachStruggleSelf HelpPrideDrawsDignityVariousBoxingIntroducingProstitutionDope Author:Muhammad Ali
“The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.” PeopleIfsShouldFirstsChildrenStillsSelfGovernmentCultureLanguageTeachIssuesHonorRight NowProgramDignityImportancePrioritiesSelf WorthSovereigntyTreatiesSustainingTop PrioritiesBarak Obama Author:Leonard Peltier
“If you come face to face with some really challenging situations and tragic circumstances - you are going in there with a purpose. You are not going in there as a tourist. You're not going there just to merely observe. You have a purpose, and your purpose is to tell that story, to share that story for the bigger benefit of millions of other people. Your purpose is to create that bridge so you can give that story the dignity and the focus that it deserves, and you can become a part of the amplification that needs to be there.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingStoriesFacesPurposeChallengesSituationMillionsFocusShareCircumstancesBenefitsDeserveDignityBiggerBridgesTragicFace To FaceTouristsAmplificationChallenging Situations Author:Annie Lennox
“When they say [Donald Trump] is not "presidential": I asked myself what does it mean to be "presidential"? You wear a suit; you talk to the American people like you possess the character and the dignity of one who seeks the highest office in the land, and behind the door you're the worst criminal on the planet, plotting the overthrow of nations and governments, and regime change, and sending drones to kill people you don't like? That's presidential.” PeopleMeanDoeCharacterGovernmentNationsBehindsDoorsLandWorstPlanetsLike YouTrumpOfficeHighestDignityCriminalsSuitsPresidentialRegimesDronesSuits YouRegime Change Author:Louis Farrakhan
“In Kashmir, rights relating to life, liberty, dignity of the people, and freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, embodied in the fundamental covenants and enforceable by courts of law, have been gravely violated.” PeopleHas BeensLawLibertyRightsExpressionDignityConstitutionFundamentalsCourtCovenantFreedom Of ExpressionKashmir Author:Nyla Ali Khan
“Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.” PeopleSocialPovertySecurityDignityRetiringSocial Security Author:Tim Kaine
“I was overwhelmed with the kindness of people [in Afghanistan] and found that they had managed to retain their dignity, their pride, and their hospitality under unspeakably bleak conditions.” PeopleFoundKindnessConditionsPrideDignityAfghanistanOverwhelmedHospitalityBleak Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I hope what we can talk about is something that happened, you know, within the last 25 years, the things that are relevant to our country right here, right now, including all people, fighting for the rights of working people, fighting for the rights of people struggling for dignity and respect in our society.” PeopleKnowsYearsCountryLastsFightingStruggleRightsHappenedRight NowDignityIncludingOur CountryOur SocietyRelevantDignity And Respect Author:Keith Ellison
“[Ronald] Reagan talked to people across the world and he was very successful in communicating and treating people with dignity and respect, but putting America first in every single we do.” PeopleWorldFirstsAmericaSuccessfulDignityCommunicateDignity And Respect Author:Reince Priebus
“[Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesLawValuesFallUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyShareWallCommitmentEuropeDignityEndureAround The WorldRootedRemindersBerlinRule Of LawBerlin Wall Author:Barack Obama
“I fortunately know very many people, and there are many, many more that I don't know and many politicians who stand up for the same values of democracy of liberal societies, of open societies of respect for the dignity of man.” PeopleKnowsMenValuesDemocracyPoliticianDignity Author:Angela Merkel
“I was watching the TV broadcasts interviewing people stranded at airports for days on end, losing their holidays, their important business meetings and the long-awaited ability to see their families... In short, suffering. No one complained, though! They kept repeating: we are so grateful for the care taken of our safety, for feeling. They were ready to surrender a good deal of their human dignity, individuality, freedom of choice.” PeopleHumansLongImportantEndsFeelingsCareSufferingChoicesAbilityDealsTakenReadyTvsLosingDignitySafetyGratefulMeetingsIndividualitySurrenderHolidayAirportsFreedom Of ChoiceHuman DignityAbility To SeeSo GratefulStrandedBusiness Meeting Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“[Transsexual surgery] could be likened to political psychiatry in the Soviet Union. I suggest that transsexualism should best be seen in this light, as directly political, medical abuse of human rights. The mutilation of healthy bodies and the subjection of such bodies to dangerous and life-threatening continuing treatment violates such people's rights to live with dignity in the body into which they were born.” PeopleShouldHumansBodyLightPoliticalBornRightsDangerousHealthyDignityAbuseUnionsHuman RightsMedicalTreatmentSovietContinuingSurgeryThreateningSoviet UnionPsychiatrySubjectionHealthy BodyMutilationTranssexuals Author:Sheila Jeffreys
“Certainly Martin Luther King, in the mainstream perception of him, had a dream. Yes, he did. But the question becomes, what was that dream? It wasn't the American Dream. It was a dream that all human beings, especially poor and working people, be treated with dignity.” PeopleHumansDreamHuman BeingsPoorKingsPerceptionDignityTreatedMainstreamAmerican DreamLuther Author:Cornel West
“Treat people with dignity and respect.” PeopleDignityTreatsDignity And Respect Author:Michelle Obama
“I do have to say when we read certain words being used to describe President Trump - it's never been done. It wasn't done about President Obama. It wasn't done about either President Bush, President Clinton, because people have a certain respect for and recognition of the dignity for the office of the president. And so I am beseeching everybody to cool it down a little bit.” PeopleLittlesDoneUsedCertainBitsPresidentTrumpOfficeLittle BitDignityClintonRecognitionPresident ObamaPresident BushPresident Clinton Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Coolidge liked the dignity of the presidency. He didn't get on the phone easily. It's possible that he banished the phone from his desk. He was known to use it from time to time. The person who was hilarious with the phone was Hoover. He was a real engineer. He made a closed circuit phone where he could call the important people and they could call him, a government hotline, but it was closed. He shut out the possibility of input from people he didn't expect to get input from.” PeoplePersonsMadeImportantRealUseGovernmentKnownPossibilityDignityPhonesEngineersDesksPresidencyInputCircuitsHoover Author:Amity Shlaes
“The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.” PeopleWorldFeelsStatesProblemTodaySocialJusticeUnitedCommonUnited StatesSolutionsDignitySocial JusticePreparedEngagedQuestsDeprived Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity.” PeopleGivingHumansWellsMadeDoneGovernmentNationsEnjoyTermHuman BeingsUnitedOne ThingAchievementDignityBlindUnited Nations Author:Nelson Mandela
“My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.” PeopleIfsThinkingChildrenStatesHumanityFightingPositionProjectsRacismRedStandingDignityBlueSpeciesUpliftingSexismHomophobiaUnderdogAnti RacismCenterpieces Author:Van Jones
“I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansLongStillsSelfHomeRememberPresidentRightsSpeechDegreesWorshipDeserveDignityHuman RightsDefinitionsTrialsEmploymentRememberedDecentSelf RespectBroadsHealthcareFreedom Of SpeechLong WayJuryAssemblyLong Way To GoTrial By JuryFreedom Of Assembly Author:Jimmy Carter
“When people get frustrated, it's when they feel they are living in a context that deprives them of dignity, deprives them of justice and deprives them of the freedom to realize their full potential, and that to me is what the Arab awakening was all about. I think it applied to every country, and so I have been an unmitigated supporter of it.” PeopleThinkingFeelsHas BeensCountryRealizingJusticeDignityAwakeningFrustratedSupporterFull Potential Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think no country is going to be immune from the Arab awakening because the Arab awakening is driven by deep human longing for dignity, for justice and for freedom. I think that applies to young people in Saudi Arabia as much as to young people in Egypt, Tunisia, or Yemen, or Libya, or Syria. If I were in Saudi Arabia, I would be getting ahead of this and looking for ways to appreciate those aspirations and align my country with them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayHumansCountryWould BeYoungJusticeAppreciateDignityLongingDrivenAwakeningAspirationSyriaEgyptImmuneArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisLibyaYemenTunisia Author:Thomas Friedman
“We used to have adults who set standards, moral standards, cultural standards, legal standards. They were better than we were. They gave us something to aspire to. They were people that we described as having dignity and character. That's all gone now, particularly the upper levels of the Democrat Party. There isn't any of that kind of decency, dignity, character, morality.” PeopleKindCharacterUsedLevelsPartyMoralGoneMoralityStandardsAdultsDignityDemocratAspireDecency Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.” PeopleBelieveI BelievePartyRepublicanEqualDignityProtectionRepublican PartyDeserving Author:Stephan Jenkins
“As individuals, we have to act independently of the politics at hand. I don't feel an added responsibility to do anything more beyond being who I've always been and acting decently. I've always felt people are looking down on us and expecting us to fail. That's enough of a burden, and we automatically try to act with dignity.” PeopleTryingEnoughIndividualActingResponsibilityFailingDignityBurdenExpecting Author:Nicky Jam
“I think that, in our culture, we find older people to be almost invisible, and it's such a shame. The one thing, the one condition that we all suffer from, and that we all benefit from, is ageing. It starts at zero and we're all going in the same direction, and I always try to see the young person underneath the older person and that's all of us. We all feel the same way inside, and I think that there are so many ways for us to age well and to help our senior population get to the golden years with more dignity more independent and more enjoyment.” PeopleThinkingTryingHelpingAgeSufferingCultureDignityShameIndependentInvisibleEnjoymentSenior Author:Leeza Gibbons
“I don't think that Donald Trump represents the traditional Republican values and heritage of my party. That's one reason that I don't support him. The Republican Party has always revered the individual. We led the way in abolishing slavery, for example, and we recognize the dignity and worth of every human being. it is clear that Donald Trump, by his derogatory comments, by his mocking of the most vulnerable people in our society, by his marginalization of ethnic and religious minorities, doesn't reflect the traditional Republican values.” PeopleThinkingReasonValuesIndividualReligiousPartySupportRepublicanDignitySlaveryVulnerableCommentRepublican Party Author:Gwen Ifill
“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.” PeopleFormHumanityGroupsRacismDignityDenyRacistBigotryHomophobiaAnti SemitismPersonhoodLarge Groups Author:Coretta Scott King
“Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.” PeopleDifferentFeelingsValuesDignity Author:Chip Espinoza
“Nothing is more inspiring to see how poor and suffering people, living under conditions incomparably worse than we endure, continue quietly and unpretentiously with courageous and committed struggle for justice and dignity.” PeopleSufferingJusticePoorStruggleDignityEndureCommittedCourageous Author:Noam Chomsky
“When it comes to trans people, we have to acknowledge their humanity and their dignity and listen to their voices and celebrate their courage. So much of the legislation that's happening across the world right now is not about bathrooms. It's about whether or not trans people have the right to exist in public and that's horrible. So many of our leaders are making an effort to erase trans people from our society and that angers me so much. I want to do everything in my power to stop that.” PeopleWorldHumanityEffortLeaderDignityHorribleCelebrateAcknowledgeBathroomErase Author:Jeff Varner
“Doing drugs is like anything else - predicated on taste, refinement, dignity, distinction, and originality. Cocaine is not cool, because it makes people act cartoonishly fiendish, and that is undignified.” PeopleDrugDignityOriginalityCocaine Author:Hamilton Morris
“Storytelling is very important. It is through context and relations that we understand the importance of human dignity. The concept means nothing as an abstraction. It's important for us to understand why people do the things they do, including the monsters - the suicide bomber and the war criminal. Understanding is not acceptance. Understanding is exploring the human psyche. If we want to put an end to violence, we need to have the sort of conversation I had with the teenage suicide bomber.” PeopleMeanImportantWarUnderstandingViolenceAcceptanceDignityImportanceRelationSuicideStorytellingExploringTeenageHuman Dignity Author:Payam Akhavan
“Mainly I got to know about the atmosphere in the East Germany and how people felt, because I never experienced it physically. You can't talk, because everywhere there's someone listening in on everything you say, and you might get things wrong and be questioned or they come up and say, "Well, actually, we want you to work for us and if don't, we'll pressure you," and stuff like that. Living in a country like that, how do you get around it and still keep your dignity? I think it's one of the main questions.” PeopleThinkingCountryListeningDignityAtmosphere Author:Nina Hoss
“The science is my passion, the policy work my social duty. I think there's no other issue in the world that causes such suffering and which could be improved simply by rethinking. Millions of people are in jail just because they used consciousness-altering substances without causing any harm to others. I think it is an affront to human rights and dignity. What you do with your consciousness is your own business.” PeopleThinkingWorldSufferingPassionConsciousnessPolicyDutyDignityHuman RightsMy PassionOwn Business Author:Amanda Feilding
“When we, hijras, started our activism, we had to tell people, "We exist, we are humans. Please give us nothing but our basic dignity." The biggest misery in the world, I believe, is the feeling of being unloved, and that this community faces a lot. You're not even considered to be human. You're considered transparent. We were ignored until we started organizing, when HIV first became a factor. Even in the HIV world, people could not believe that hijras have sex. And then also we were put in the category of men having sex with men, the gay community.” PeopleMenWorldGivingBelieveFeelingsI BelieveCommunityGayDignityMiseryActivismIgnoredUnloved Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“I always say, "First complete your education, be what you want to be in life, get a position, start earning. Then, when you are financially stable, everything will be stable in your life." I have become like a role model, and people feel that I must have had a really cool life, my parents accepting me, like a Cinderella story. It's not like a Cinderella story for me. I had to be my own fairy godmother and create myself. I took decisions and I lived with those decisions, and I did everything for my own dignity.” PeopleParentDecisionAcceptingDignityFairyRole ModelsReally CoolGodmotherFairy Godmother Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“I try to educate people. I've told the hijra community that it's not about getting breasts or having sexual reassignment surgery. First we need our rights. We need our dignity. We need inclusion in every bloody policy for the marginalized. We need education. We need dignified shelter. There are many like me who are able to earn without begging. But the fact is that before even coming into the social sector, I was running a dance class, and before that I was a model coordinator. I didn't want to beg, or do sex work, or sell myself.” PeopleTryingRunningCommunityPolicyDignityEducateInclusionBloodySurgeryBegging Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi
“Congress actually authorized the printing and payment for a Bible. That illustrates the high regard that the Bible was held in early American society. We see biblical ideas woven into the founding documents of our country like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The Declaration of Independence explicity states "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights..." This is a biblical idea stemming from the dignity of all people - Psalm 139:14 - we are fearfully and wonderfully made.” PeopleMenCountryEqualDignityConstitutionIndependenceBiblicalDeclarationPrintingDeclaration Of IndependencePsalms Author:Steve Green
“In one sense, no act of reparation will be satisfactory for those whose lives were so under-valued both as human beings held in slavery and then as human chattel to satisfy the financial indebtedness of a Catholic institution. Nonetheless, the university must also put into place - as it is attempting to do - a program that both admits the horror and error of its past actions and directs its students, faculty, and administrations to an awareness of the dignity of all people, especially those who even today are often considered less than worthy of respect and dignity.” PeopleTodayActionPastAwarenessStudentsHorrorProgramDignityCatholicSlaveryFinancialWorthyDignity And Respect Author:Wilton Daniel Gregory