We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.
It is not wealth one asks for but just enough to preserve one's dignity to work unhampered to be generous frank and independent.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom dignity and enormous capacity for survival.
The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father the Son of His Love gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something something considerable even in God's Eyes.
After a lifetime of working raising families and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.
Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and our state's economy.
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.
From the depth of need and despair people can work together can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.
I have in some ways saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive still get through it.
Stabilizing the euro is one thing healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
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.
Further the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life more so than anyone I could mention.
The U.S. military has done a phenomenal job of creating these facilities almost over-night and dealing with these sworn enemies of America with more respect and dignity than they ever would have considered according our officers had they captured any.
My mission I guess has always been the kind of world where lesbian and gay people can celebrate who we are with equal freedom dignity and respect.
Because we should always respect other nationalities I have always tried to play them with dignity.
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we as a people assume responsibility?
More than anything I think as our country matures we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
To our Palestinian neighbours I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
It comes down to the way you treat people. When you treat people with dignity and respect all the time you can work through anything.
Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
Our moral religious and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.
That means that every human being - without distinction of sex age race skin color language religion political view or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
In the 21st century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life regardless of race or religion.
Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.
Frankly if you do politics you should not be thinking about your dignity.