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"I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled."
"Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all."
"Wise men appreciate all men, for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good."
"When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old"
"... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die."
"What a delight it is to respect people!"
"All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And since no one's past is exactly like anyone else's, no two people see alike."
"When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable."
"Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?"
"Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend."
"Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry; Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free."
"Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good."
"The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me."
"But respect yourself most of all."
"We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect."
"The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered."
"The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can."
"It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect."
"My respect for the inconsiderable is assuming gigantic dimensions."
"To them that ask: Where hast thou seen the Gods, or how knowest thou certainly that there be Gods, that thou art so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it."
