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#dignity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #dignity




When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.


Bayard Rustin


#act #being #confers #dignity #him

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a woman is as good as a man," without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#clichés #dignity #discrimination #double-standards #empowerment

Dignity is not a symbol bestowed on man, nor does the word itself possess force. Man's dignity is a force and the only modus vivendi by which man and his history survive. When mid-twentieth century Germany did not let man live and die with this right, man became an animal. No matter how technologically advanced or sophisticated, when man negates this divine right, he not only becomes self-destructive, but castrates his history and poisons our future. This is what 'The Nazi Drawings' are about.


Mauricio Lasansky


#artists #dignity #history #human-nature #art

Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.


Virginia Woolf


#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #encroachment #feminism

To stand by yourself -- that was also part of dignity. That way, a person could get through a public flaying with dignity. Galileo. Luther. Even somebody who admitted his guilt and resisted the temptation to deny it. Something politicians couldn't do. Honesty, the courage for honesty. With others and yourself.


Pascal Mercier


#courage #dignity #honesty #personality #self-awareness

To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.


Mahatma Gandhi


#faith #history #man #faith

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.


Paul Ryan


#building #citizens #communities #dignity #economy

There is no dignity in television.


Adam Savage


#television

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

Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.


Debbie Stabenow


#dignity #economic #economy #ensures #families






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