Dignity
Dignity draws on what is good in human beings – our generosity, our compassion, our selflessness – not because it wishes to deny what is bad, but because it believes that we have the choice. Our higher nature can transcend our baser selves, if we cultivate the strength of our principles. We respect the world’s great moral leaders, past and present, because of the difficult choices they made. They chose forgiveness over revenge, love over hate, service over success. The worst embodiments of evil in the history of the world were all attempts to strip people of their basic human dignity, their inherent worth as people, their intrinsic value as citizens.
— Wayne Visser
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