Barbara Coloroso Quotes

Each child is made in the image of God and has inherent worth.

The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.

You are worthy because you were born.

Every man [human being] is an heir to a legacy of dignity and worth.

Every man is somebody because he is a child of God.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

And every human being is precious.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so because each and every human being - you, every friend, every stranger, every foreigner - is precious.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

All human life is precious.

My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

The supreme belief of our society is the dignity and freedom of the individual. To the respect of that dignity, to the defense of that freedom, all effort is pledged.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

A child, like all other human beings, has inalienable rights.

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.