Quotes about Dignity
This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.
— Abraham Lincoln
He is not my equal in many respects, but in his right to enjoy 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' in his right to put into his mouth the bread that his hands have earned, he is my equal...
— Abraham Lincoln
In other times it may have been the business of Christianity to champion the equality of all men; its business today will be to defend passionately human dignity and reserve.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whoever despises another human being will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing of what we despise in another is itself foreign to us.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The future in modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of man and true freedom and to keep the law of God, even if it means martyrdom or death.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The hungry person needs bread, the homeless person needs shelter, the one deprived of rights needs justice, the lonely person needs community, the undisciplined one needs order, and the slave needs freedom. Treating human beings as things, commodities, and machines is a special hindrance to receiving Christ.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience. —
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
Look at the face of the other... discover that he has a soul, a history and a life, that he is a person and that God loves this person.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Abortion, euthanasia, human cloning, for example, risk reducing the human person to a mere object: life and death to order, as it were!
— Pope John Paul II
No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.
— Epictetus
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.
— Mike Huckabee