Cesar Chavez Quotes

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

I think everyone deserves dignity.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

To possess dignity is to be worthy of respect. Worthy of high esteem. Absorb this: you are worthy of respect.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Self-respect is a commodity worth cleaving to.

You don't ever want to seem less than a person.

Tell me, when do you become a respectable person in society? When you start respecting yourself. That is when you take care of yourself, that is when you comb your hair, groom yourself, and cleanse your body. You do all this because you respect yourself.

One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being.

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.

Respect starts with ourselves.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

All people have dignity. There's nobody who was born without a soul and a spirit.

Maintaining my dignity is so important for me.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Never think you're better than anyone else, but don't let anyone treat you like you're worse than they are.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.