Dignity
Dignity is the ability to recognise prejudice for the false god that it is – and choose instead to affirm each person’s inherent value as a human being. At the heart of dignity is the unshakeable belief that no person is better, or worse, than another. Delusions of superiority, even under the guise of self-righteousness, are a poison in the blood of dignity. Likewise, feelings of inferiority are a malignant cancer which eats away at the body of dignity. We should not think that dignity is only a task for the heroic amidst the melodrama of historical injustice. Every moment of the day, in small yet significant ways, we affirm or deny dignity in our lives.
— Wayne Visser
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