Laura Hillenbrand Quotes

And every human being is precious.

Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

For our part we regard all human life as equally sacred, whether it be the life of an Empress or the life of a charwoman, and we have no desire to emulate our contemporaries in their attempt to magnify the horror of a crime because the victim belonged to the former rank of life rather than the latter.

Even the vilest criminal remains a human being possessed of common human dignity.

All government and all private institutions must be designed to promote and protect and defend the integrity and the dignity of the individual. And that is the essential meaning of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Every man a king." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all sovereign.

A defensible and durable civilization can only sustain itself legitimately and effectively if it recognizes the inherent dignity of every member of the human family

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen—the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will—are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

If we care about life and the dignity of all life, then we care about the dignity of all life, and that includes the human life of children.

Kansas is great - and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

Every human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

It's not acceptable to torture people for being themselves.

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

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

We're all people", he said simply. "It doesn't matter if you're two, thirty-two, or ninety-two. Everyone wants to be treated with respect. Everyone wants to feel like they matter in this world.

All human life is precious.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

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.

How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity.

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