Quotes about Dignity
But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions of impoverished white men and women who were treated as second-class citizens.
— Martin Luther King III
Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
— Pope John Paul II
Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.
— Oscar Wilde
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
— Virginia Woolf
When you give a man a dole you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him his destiny.
— Zig Ziglar
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa of Avila
The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.
— John Adams
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.