CURATED COLLECTION

Self-Respect and Self-Worth

Before you can demand dignity from the world, you have to offer it to yourself.

61 quotes found

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To be invisible is to not exist. And yet, here I am.

—Manjula PadmanabhanAuthor & Playwright

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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I was determined that I would write about the people around me.

—Miriam TlaliNovelist

Post-War ERA • Southern Africa

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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.

—Richard WrightNovelist & Critic

Early Modern ERA • North America

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I have been a slave, I am now free, and I am a woman.

—Sojourner TruthAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

—Ralph Waldo EmersonEssayist & Philosopher

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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I am not a quitter. I will fight till I drop. It is just the way I am.

—Cicely TysonAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Latin American identity is not static; it is a constant, creative construction, forged through resistance.

—Marta TrabaCritic & Novelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

—Nelson MandelaAnti-Apartheid Activist & President

Late Modern ERA • Southern Africa

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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

—Louisa May AlcottNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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Caring for myself is not self‑indulgence, it is self‑preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

—Audre LordeWriter, Feminist & Activist

Late Modern ERA • North America

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We fought for independence, for our homeland, for our people's dignity.

—Chin PengAuthor & Thinker

Contemporary ERA • Southeast Asia

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I write because nobody has the right to silence me.

—Maryse CondéNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

—Rosario CastellanosPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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We are more than what was done to us.

—Earl LovelaceNovelist & Playwright

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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I shall not be a slave. I am a queen.

—Njinga MbandeQueen

Renaissance ERA • Southern Africa

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Language is the home that cannot be taken from you.

—Pham Thi HoaiNovelist & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Southeast Asia

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Let no one uproot the Pumpkin.

—Okot p'BitekPoet & Anthropologist

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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Our culture is our resistance.

—Rigoberta MenchúActivist

Late Modern ERA • Central America

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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies.

—Maya AngelouPoet, Memoirist & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Every woman is a queen in her own kingdom.

—Buchi EmechetaNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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