Dignity in example sentence

If we rebel against humiliation, insult or enslavement as individuals; if we defend our individual human dignity and resist attacks that threaten it; we do -- indeed we must do -- precisely the same as a community that has established a state, because the state is, among other things, an instrument to protect our life together in freedom.

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We don't have a system to ensure that human rights, basic dignity, are ensured.

And human rights comes down to a very simple proposition: can I give this person their dignity back?

It starts with just giving people back their dignity.

But what I'm more concerned about in many ways is that, as we de-link ourselves from nature, as we de-link ourselves spiritually from these animals, we lose hope, we lose that spiritual connection, our dignity, that thing within us that keeps us connected to the planet.

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