#dignity

I don't want to flee, nor do I want to abandon the battle of these farmers who live without any protection in the forest. They have the sacrosanct right to aspire to a better life on land where they can live and work with dignity while respecting the environment. ↗

— Dorothy Stang

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All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable. ↗

— Paul Claudel

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What is called for is dignity. We need to set an example. ↗

— Kenny Dalglish

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Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ↗

— Charles G. Dawes

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I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment. ↗

— Thomas Kincade

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He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity. ↗

— Don King

#day #dignity #for the day #people #worked

I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

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Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity. ↗

— L'Wren Scott

#dignity #every #just #look #power

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. ↗

— George Mason

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender