Quotes about Respect
I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.
— Mark Twain
No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
— Mark Twain
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
All labor has dignity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn't do his job, diseases are rampant.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
no labor is really menial unless you're not getting adequate wages.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The real tragedy of such narrow provincialism is that we see people as entities or merely as things. Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.