Dignity Quotes

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  The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

  Ruby Dee

  Strength, Inspiring, Beauty

  "Rhodessa Jones: Ruby Dee a guiding light for social change" by Rhodessa Jones, www.sfgate.com. June 17, 2014.

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  Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . .

  Nelson Mandela

  Justice, Overcoming, Fundamentals

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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  Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Samuel Ullman

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Time

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• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

  Ellen Key

  Skills, Giving, Liberal Education

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• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Respect

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• I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

  John F. Kennedy

  Kindness, Believe, Heart

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  One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

  Michael J. Fox

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

  Confucius

  Wise, Pride, Men

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• Terrorism is contempt for human dignity.

  Kjell Magne Bondevik

  Terrorism, Contempt, Humans

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• My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

  Beverly Sills

  Careers, Voice, Long

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women". Book by Rosalie Maggio, 1992.

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• The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

  Ben Jonson

  Life, Losing, Truth Is

  Ben Jonson (1756). “The Works of Ben. Jonson: The alchemist. Catiline, his conspiracy. Bartholomew Fair”, p.201

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• The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

  Pope John Paul II

  Maturity, Expression, Servant Of God

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• The quest for freedom, dignity, and the rights of man will never end.

  William J. Brennan

  Men, Rights, Quests

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• Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

  Ricardo Montalban

  Play, Respecting Others, Should

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Inheritance, Literature, England

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• Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Human Dignity, Personal Dignity, Humans

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

  Kim Dae-jung

  Justice, Democracy, Development

  Dae Jung Kim (2004). “The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004”

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• Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

  John Milton

  Men, Mind, Body

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.618-20.

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• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Born Free, Equal

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• Creating a world that is truly fit for children does not imply simply the absence of war... It means having primary schools nearby that educate children, free of charge... It means building a world fit for children, where every child can grow to adulthood in health, peace and dignity.

  Carol Bellamy

  Education, Children, War

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• Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.

  Isaac Asimov

  People, Democracy, Population

  Interview with Bill Moyers on PBS miniseries "A World of Ideas" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 17, 1988.

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• Not just Christians and Jews, but also Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus and the followers of many other religions believe in values like peace, respect, tolerance and dignity. These are values that bring people together and enable us to build responsible and solid communities.

  Alcee Hastings

  Forgiveness, Christian, Buddhist

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• I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

  Arthur Miller

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

  Arthur Miller (2016). “Collected Essays: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.23, Penguin

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• We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Police Violence, Discipline

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Speak, Lows, Temper

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.410

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