Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest read more

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.

Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.

Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing read more

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act read more

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only read more

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.