1.
We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity
Thomas Sankara
We must become knowledgeable in the customs of Africa in order to live freely and honorably.
2.
If you don't have self-respect, if you don't have dignity, if you don't have some true knowledge of self and who you are, and where you're coming from, then you're absolutely lost.
Immortal Technique
"If you lack an appreciation for yourself, if you have no sense of honor, if you are unaware of your identity and origin, then you are completely disoriented."
3.
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!
Thabo Mbeki
When shall our honour be re-established, when the meaning of our lives will no longer just be to endure until the sun emerges anew!
4.
What we say and what we do ultimately comes back to us so let us own our responsibility, place it in our hands, and carry it with dignity and strength.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
'The consequences of our words and actions shall return to us, so let us accept and shoulder our obligation with grace and might.'
5.
Everybody enjoys the freedom he deserves, which is measured by the stature and dignity of his person or by his function, and not by the abstract and elementary fact of merely being a 'human being' or a 'citizen'.
Julius Evola
6.
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
When a single person is pushing back against the denial of their fundamental worth as a human being, their act of resistance offers them esteem.
7.
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
Angela Merkel
When it comes to respecting the value of human life, we cannot afford to waver.
8.
What loss is there in dignity, what worry is there of failure?
Zhuge Liang
What is the detriment of honour, what apprehension is there of defeat?
9.
Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without
Subcomandante Marcos
10.
Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.
Rod Serling
11.
Human dignity is more precious than prestige.
Claude McKay
12.
The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
Jackie Robinson
13.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti
14.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.
Claude McKay
15.
Gather the five virtues (Dignity, Confidence, Courage, Compassion, and Faith). Then you are a man.
Kofi Annan
16.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
Havelock Ellis
17.
It is not who is right,
but what is right,
that is of importance.
Thomas Huxley
18.
We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
Alex Comfort
19.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.
Dean Alfange
20.
All animals, including humans, have a right to lives of dignity and respect, without forced intrusions.
Marc Bekoff
21.
In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
22.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
J. G. Holland
23.
MISDEMEANOR, n. An infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
Ambrose Bierce
24.
Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
Ernest Hemingway
26.
A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.
Marcel Proust
27.
Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.
Ricardo Montalban
28.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp
29.
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
Dominique de Menil
30.
In Belgium, the magistrate has the dignity of a prince, but by Bacchus, it is true that the brewer is king.
Emile Verhaeren
31.
To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers.
André Brink
32.
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Federica Montseny
33.
No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity
Nelson Mandela
34.
Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost
Rubin Carter
35.
Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
Heidi Baker
36.
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
Immanuel Kant
37.
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
Karl Marx
39.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Edward Bellamy
40.
Life, without the dignity of an intelligent being, is not worth having.
Louis Riel
41.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo
42.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
Olof Palme
43.
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
44.
A people denied history is a people deprived of dignity.
Ali Mazrui
46.
If you treat people with dignity, respect and friendliness, you can turn enemies into friends. An enemy is nothing but a friend in disguise.
Ted Turner
47.
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a great task.
Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
48.
What?” I said defensively, clutching the mink and my dignity. Since I was barefoot, mostly naked and completely hungover, I was pretty sure I grasped only one of them.
Karen Chance
49.
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience.
Lech Walesa
50.
I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
Maria Callas