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Living With Dignity

Dignity is not something others can give you — but it is something they can make extraordinarily hard to keep.

53 quotes found

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To die for one's country is to embrace eternity.

—Qiu JinFeminist, Revolutionary & Poet

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are.

—Aminata Sow FallNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfil it or betray it, in relative opacity.

—Frantz FanonPhilosopher

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.

—Rosa ParksActivist

Post-War ERA • North America

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The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

—Aung San Suu KyiPolitician

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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To be truly free is to be free from concern for outcomes.

—ZhuangziPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • East Asia

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We are all prisoners of our memories, our desires, our history. There is no escape.

—Pham Thi HoaiNovelist & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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I have the right to be silent.

—Anna AkhmatovaPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is to be gained by despising things outside our control.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.

—René DescartesPhilosopher & Mathematician

Renaissance ERA • Western Europe

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Apartheid was a world of nothing.

—Nadine GordimerNovelist & Activist

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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Simplify, simplify.

—Henry David ThoreauWriter, Naturalist & Philosopher

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I would rather die free than live as a slave.

—Samori TouréEmperor

Industrial Age ERA • West Africa

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There's no way out, and that itself is the way out.

—László KrasznahorkaiNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I never ran my train off the track.

—Harriet TubmanAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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My only duty is to bear witness. To tell what I saw and what I heard.

—Nadezhda MandelstamMemoirist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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Death is nothing to me, if I die for my country.

—Sándor PetőfiPoet & Revolutionary

Industrial Age ERA • Eastern Europe

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Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

—EpictetusPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Our struggle is not yet ended. That is why I write.

—Alex La GumaNovelist & Activist

Post-War ERA • Southern Africa

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They asked me to say something. I said, Nothing.

—Agha Shahid AliPoet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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