In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
Family is the future, security is the future, work is the future, investment is the future, dignity is the future.
Through the 1990s, ‘Reason’ was a voice of ‘dissident feminism,’ upholding the equal dignity of both sexes and supporting the rights of individuals against a government that had gone mad over sexual harassment.
And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other’s dignity and rights.
What you learn growing up in a place like Buffalo is that your job isn’t just your paycheck, it’s your identity. It doesn’t just give you dollars, it gives you dignity.
The death penalty confronts us with a penetrating moral question: Can even the monstrous crimes of those who are condemned to death and are truly guilty of such crimes erase their sacred dignity as human beings and their intrinsic right to life?
The real challenge lies in maintaining dignity while being funny. I am in awe of Krushna Abhishek’s energy and Bharti Singh’s wit. They are infectious and selfless.
David Anspaugh, who was my first director, on ‘Rudy,’ was all about empowering the actor, making you feel comfortable and appreciated, allowing you to keep your dignity, and treating you like a man. Being treated like a grown-up makes you proud to be involved in a film.
There’s a wonderful stable of directors I’ve worked with, and work I’ve done that has dignity and meaningfulness.
I have not seen much dignity in the process by which we die. The quest to achieve true dignity fails when our bodies fail.
I loved being in the theater. It was a place of enormous excitement and happiness and safety and respect and dignity. It was a place where, if you did your job, you weren’t a kid – you were a full person worthy of respect from all the adults in the company.
Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.
Jay Wright is class personified. He wins with class, loses with dignity when he does, which is not often.
President or Prime Minister are not any individuals. They are an institutions in itself, and in democracy, we should ensure that the dignity of the institutions is not lowered.
But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?
I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.
Somewhere along the way, I think I realised that taking yourself seriously is the worst thing that you can do in life, so once I let that go, I’ve just let it all go. I have no standard of personal dignity.
I believe in aid. I believe in the power it has to end disease, hunger and extreme poverty, to build strong economies and to help the world’s most vulnerable people live lives of dignity. Aid also allows us to influence and shape the world around us.
We’re going to teach and broaden sort of the cultural impact of respect and dignity, regardless of where you’re sitting. And that’s why we’ve said once you’ve boarded an aircraft, we’re not going to take you off except for safety and security.
Our seniors deserve dignity, high-quality care, and a government that works for them.
Owning my identity… ties into my value of dignity.
‘Peace’ means rules respected by everyone – big or small, rich or poor – means cooperation. It means respect for human rights and dignity.
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
I was in chains all the time, 24 hours a day, for three years. I tried to wear those chains with dignity, even if I felt that it was unbearable.
Maintaining the dignity of my subjects has grown to be, over the years, an imperative in my work, both in the taking of the pictures and in their presentation.
When people spot me, they are really warm. They acknowledge me with smiles and come up, even now, to tell me that I showed a lot of dignity in ‘Big Brother.’ Or they say, ‘I voted for you to win!’ which is really sweet.
When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
I really admire people who have the integrity and dignity to hold out for the best work, even if that means you’re not going to work for six months. But I don’t have that.
It’s not always easy to take the high road when you are hurting, but in the long run at least you still have your integrity and dignity.
I don’t want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the ‘thinking men’ but among my simple ‘backward’ people.
To us, mastering the atomic fuel cycle and generating nuclear power is as much about diversifying our energy resources as it is about who Iranians are as a nation, our demand for dignity and respect, and our consequent place in the world.
In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could look to the federal government. If the racist sheriff and his troops beat them with batons or sprayed them and their children with water cannons, the attorney general would act.
For me, if I have done my duty, the continued approbation of Congress and the Marine Committee will make me rich indeed, and far more than reward me for a life of service devoted from principles of philanthropy, to support the dignity of human nature.
When we achieve human rights and human dignity for all people – they will build a peaceful, sustainable, and just world.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
All people have dignity. There’s nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman. At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.
Self respect and dignity are more important for a woman than success.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
What we need to do is understand that we have to love each other, that we have to see each other have worth and dignity and value.
John Lewis inspired countless Americans across generations with a life dedicated to service and getting into ‘good trouble.’ He had a vision for a better America, shouldered the weight of change, and put his own safety on the line so that others could live with dignity and grace.
Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.
I think the world consists of yin and yang. There should be a balance, and it’s important to coexist peacefully, with respect and dignity, and whenever those lines are crossed I think it’s important for people to speak up for what they believe in.
We in the Jewish community must ask ourselves what role we are going to play in changing policies and practices that discriminate against LGBT Americans. We have a special responsibility and civic duty to ensure that all Americans are treated with dignity and equality.
The FBI that I see is people, decent people, committed to the highest principles of dignity and professionalism and respect… Now do we make mistakes? You bet we make mistakes, just like everybody who’s human makes mistakes.
Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.
I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
The enemies of our people have chosen the moment when I am knocked off my feet with sickness to stab me in the back because they know what the territorial integrity, national unity and the dignity of this great Zaire mean to me. I have devoted my life to defending these sacred values.
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.
