"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
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"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."
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"What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act - and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of."
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"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash."
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
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"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
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"The devil's most devilish when respectable."
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"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
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"We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."
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"Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."
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"Above all, don't lie to yourself."
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"A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor."
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"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
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"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
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"When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?"
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"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing."
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"If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results."
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"If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others."
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"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
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