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“The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.”

World Humans Culture Differences Common Essentials Dignity Peaceful Outlook Appreciated Human Dignity Peaceful World Personal Dignity

Author:J. William Fulbright

“A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.”

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Book:The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

Source: The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches

“Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.”

Humans Choices Liberty Essentials Dignity Components Human Dignity

Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl

“For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.”

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Author:Izzeldin Abuelaish

“A great writer has a high respect for values. His essential function is to raise life to the dignity of thought, and this he does by giving it a shape.”

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Author:Andre Maurois

“In a revolutionary age talk of equality may well have represented a passion to provide full human dignity to those who had previously been denied it by systems of political and economic domination; but in the present age it softens the spiritual requirements that are an essential ingredient in human dignity. Thus the slogans of equality serve not so much to elevate individuals to the dignity of being human as to free them from the responsibility of rising to this vocation.”

Source: Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.”

Humans Water Essentials Dignity Human Life Oxygen Unbroken Retention

Book:Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“As Western Muslims and American Muslims, we need to understand that the values and principles we promote are not only Muslim values. American Muslims live in a country where justice, dignity, freedom and equality are essential values.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.”

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Book:The Wretched of the Earth

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“In the things that really matter--our covenants, the commandments, and following the prophet--we need to be completely united. In the non-essentials, we have our agency to handle things as we see fit. But, in all things, regardless of whether we make the same choices or not, we are to treat each other with dignity and respect, both of which are evidences of charity in our hearts and lives.”

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Author:Sheri L. Dew

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”

Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

“Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.”

Essentials Dignity

Book:The Signature of All Things

Source: The Signature of All Things

“When considering the stature of an athlete or for that matter any person, I set great store in certain qualities which I believe to be essential in addition to skill. They are that the person conducts his or her life with dignity, with integrity, courage, and perhaps most of all, with modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition, and competitiveness”