Sentences with phrase «dignity of all people with»

Still, the striving for inclusion of people with disabilities in the world through treaties like the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), which aims to promote the rights and dignity of all people with disabilities gives Thompson hope for the future.

He continued, «The OHRC is pleased with the agreement reached by the parties and that the TTC is taking steps to ensure its services respect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities.

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We were asking urgent questions about whether women, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, would ever be treated with dignity and respect.

«Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them.

This policy describes how the Institute works with its employees to ensure that its activities respect the dignity, independence, integration and equal opportunity of persons with disabilities.

The first consists of the claim, affirmed in a December 23, 1988 Vatican press statement and quoted in the bishops» statement, that «the supreme pontiff... is deeply convinced that the two peoples have an identical, fundamental right to have their own homeland in which they live in freedom, dignity, and security in harmony with their neighbors.»

Jesus would be FURIOUS with our GOP and insurance firms... the modern day version of money changers in the temple whose only intent is to fatten themselves off the pain of others while denying millions of people the dignity of good health.

Start with the science that shows the humanity and individuality of the embryo, and then make philosophical arguments about the equality of all human beings as persons possessing inherent dignity.

The state should be run in accordance with what is best to maintain human dignity and a standard of living that we as a people can all agree on.

Carroll largely agrees with Wills on the concrete achievements of the council — especially its affirmation of the equal dignity of the entire people of God and its view of Judaism — but goes still further in interpreting its «spirit.»

Selfies that portray us as the humanitarian hero with our arm draped around some impoverished victim do a disservice to the dignity of those people — and actually tell a false story about their humanity.

The appropriate explanation of Christian asceticism begins with the dignity of the complete human person, not only his soul but also his body.

Seeing the lives and examples of the Christian saints; along with understanding the dignity of the human person and the intentions underlying its practices, Christian asceticism provides a clearer and more holistic view of the human person.

We are in the business of alleviating suffering, of permitting people to die with dignity.

These men and women have fought for the abolition of slavery (Wilberforce), established orphanages for abandoned children (Mueller), advanced civil rights for racial minorities (King), fought against HIV / AIDS (Koop), provided human touch, restored dignity, and shelter for the poor (Mother Teresa), created places of belonging and contribution for people with disabilities and special needs (Tada), and fought against the sex trade and human trafficking (Caine).

The League of Nations, with President Wilson's 14 points, failed; and global blood in ceaseless flood and genocidal gore inflicting millions of human casualties awakened the peoples of the earth to the urgency of the United Nations as a global guardian and sentinel on the qui vive of peace and security and respect for human dignity, worth of the human person and inalienable human rights.

Karl Marx, and others with a heart, felt the need for a revolutionary humanization of the system as inevitable and morally mandatory for the dignity and decency of the human person.

She could have stopped the suffering of those people, and helped them ease out of life with some dignity, but didn't.

While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common with this approach, in its overriding concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the duty of civil authority to foster the common good.

«Far from competing with analogous documents of civil authority, the charter intends to make a specific contribution to the promotion and safeguarding of the dignity and rights of the person and of peoples.»

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

The person comes forth with self - respect adequate to almost any situation, with the respect for others that this competent self - respect entails, with the dignity that benefits the high achievement of competent personality, and with the freedom of personal initiative that represents a comfortable adaptation of one's personal situation to the circumstances that characterize the social order of which one is a part.

On the one hand, this dignity consists in the supernatural elevation to union with God in Jesus Christ, which determines the ultimate finality of the existence of every person both on earth and in eternity.

Paradoxically insights into the dignity of women in our civilisation flowed from the fact that it was a Christian civilisation imbued with a recognition of the dignity of the human person.

I would give people hope that their church could die with dignity in a way that advanced the cause of Christ.

Even if you accept the idea that a person can take end - of - life pills (death with dignity or whatever), it is impossible to stay robust and in your prime.

With respect to freedom, human rights, and the dignity of the person, their difference is not a diversity to be celebrated but a threat to be opposed.

But the problem with such arguments is that they limit the range of people who can be said to possess this inherent dignity.

Both Republican and Democratic administrations have strong legacies of supporting humanitarian and development programs that enable countless people to pull themselves out of poverty and live life with dignity.

According to the knowledge, competence, and prestige which they [the laity] possess, they have the right and even at times the duty to manifest to the sacred pastors their opinion on matters which pertain to the good of the Church and to make their opinion known to the rest of the Christian faithful, without prejudice to the integrity of faith and morals, with reverence toward their pastors, and attentive to common advantage and the dignity of persons.

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

The importance of the family is in proportion to the dignity and worth accorded the individual person, for in the family new persons come into being and are cared for with unbounded concern for their well - being.

Associated now with the self in a manner that constitutes the knowable person, this blob deserves the dignity of a Latin name.

The improvement of moral character individually and collectively requires each person to be treated with and to treat others with dignity and to have enough to be able to become functioning members of the communion of the faithful.

They also hoped to build indigenous roots for them in the various religions and cultures of India by reforming them from within and also by legal intervention and developing a composite culture supportive of a State which is common to all peoples living in India equally and a modernized society with dignity and justice for all.

The transcendent dignity of the human person in communion with the Creator is still capable of speaking to our depths — the more so to the extent that the fantastical mythology of «H +» is exposed as fraudulent and cleared out of the way, allowing us to notice that we have depths to speak to.

As the Good Book has warned, there will come an age when people just will themselves choose confusion more than what is right and morally just to preserve their sinful ways instead of seeking the One they need to perfect them as a human person with dignity as a divine image of noble and holy existence, instead do de - basing themselves out of a healthy and happier existence even on earth.

At the same time, however, he turns with love to those around him because he recognises the dignity of the individual and the unique vocation of each person.

There are also younger people with an illness which gradually robs them of independence and dignity.

No, i just think there would be no principle of ethics or treating people with dignity if not for religion.

Because «each person has a more - or-less articulate conception of what gives value to life,» a government does not treat each person with equal respect and dignity if it prefers one conception of the good life to another.

For this reason, a genuine encounter between media and religion carries with it an attitude of respect for the dignity of people.

What we are talking about is being part of a network of nations that respond with a human rights framework that actually upholds the dignity of these people, instead of falling into the scapegoating and the «othering» of people.

A conservative pundit criticizes the statement because it also affirms that «the Catholic Church teaches emphatically that individuals and society must respect the basic human dignity of all persons, including those with a homosexual orientation.»

These books as well as many others provide insightful ways on how to raise children with respect and dignity that help in the holistic building up of a person.

One wonders: do the authors of the Platform themselves agree about whether the «dignity of all persons» is offended by abortion, whether racial quotas honor or violate the principle that «discrimination is abhorrent,» or whether the virtue of «tolerance» requires putting up with obscenity in the music of rock and rap?

In other words, the choice of certain ways of acting is always and radically incompatible with the love of God and the dignity of the human person created in His image.»

When we give to assist others, we are expressing that solidarity with all people which comes from recognising our common dignity as human persons made to the image and likeness of God.

And then there were bishops like Karol Wojtyła of Kraków, who grasped that the dignity of the human person was the battleground on which «the Church in the modern world» was contesting with various dangerous forces for the human future; who thought that coercion of consciences violated that human dignity; and who believed that the act of faith must be free if it is to be true, because the God of the Bible wants to be adored by people who freely choose to do so.

Simon Calvert, deputy director of The Christian Institute had previously written about the issue and said while transsexuals are entitled to the same dignity as anyone else, politicians must not force people to agree with transsexualism itself.