Richard Jewell Quotes

Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

My name is all I have, so I don't want that to be messed up from a game of football.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Despite everything, no one can dictate who you are to other people.

My name is more important than myself.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

A people must have dignity and identity.

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.

Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.

Just in general, no matter what you're doing, be true to yourself. Never let anyone else dictate how you live your life.

The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.

I define myself.

You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.

You own your identity; it is important to feel that way.

I want to be myself.

I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

I don't need approval from people who don't know me.

I'm a human being and I'm a man, so don't disrespect me.

If I am not I, who will be?