Sentences with phrase «dignity of people of»

In addition to the threats we anticipate to access to reproductive health care, we recognize the threats to the safety and dignity of people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people — to our patients, our staff, our neighbors, and our communities.

We wish to state categorically, here and now that Asiedu Nketiahs comments and utterances are reprehensible, is devoid of maturity, and given the office he holds, lacks the respect and dignity of the people of Ghana.

«We must expose the hatred that drives the extremist ideology; expose that this is not a clash of civilisations nor of cultures; expose that on the one side stands all civilised societies founded on the dignity of all people of all faiths and on the other an extremist violent ideology where murderers take innocent lives for notoriety,» he said.

Emmanuel Jal, a Sudanese musician and former child soldier says, «in a way [this Invisible Children campaign] robbed the dignity of the people of Northern Uganda».

Not exact matches

Only two days after entering office, he issued an executive order stating that prisoners «shall in all circumstances be treated humanely and shall not be subjected to violence to life and person (including murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment, and torture), nor to outrages upon personal dignity (including humiliating and degrading treatment).»

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

Kirsch's goals for the program are lofty, not only ending the cycle of poverty for the families involved, but also giving dignity and self - respect back to people who have never before caught a break or been told that they have what it takes to succeed.

Cooper acknowledged that Haiti, like all countries, contained a mix of people but characterized Haitians as widely having a distinct dignity.

The key to your reaction is to maintain the dignity of the crying person.

«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.

Bottom line, people should not have to dress or behave in certain societally approved ways in order to be treated like human beings deserving of the same dignity as more privileged people.

The rights and dignity of single moms and single people generally are better protected than ever [and that is progress], but there are also more single moms than ever, which might not be, on balance, good for the formation of personal identity in most cases.

And Catholic thinkers — the writings of Jacques Maritain are a prominent case in point — have long promoted a «Christian Humanism,» a perspective that celebrates the created dignity of the human person in God's design for the world.

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

We in this country must take a closer look at how we are not respecting the dignity of all persons when we ask our men and women in the armed forces to lie about who they really are.

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.»

Older accounts grounded in the dignity of the person created in the image of God are, in my view, far stronger.

The great disagreement among people is over the meaning of perfected dignity, even if they do not use this kind of language.

And the Church teaches that the freedom of religion may not be infringed by government mandates that persons act contrary to what their consciences tell them about the truth of such things as the sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage, and the reality of sex as the basis of «gender.»

Unfortunately, little attention is given to understanding how human dignity of the clinician is threatened and violated in the current health care environment... [which] has led to the systemic violation of the dignity of the clinician (and ultimately that of persons who are sick), created moral distress among clinicians, and the collapse of the healing relationship.

«They're very often wonderful places where people's dignity is protected and if you will invest those and churches get involved in those we'll see even higher levels of end of life palliative care there.

His appeal to the dignity of humanity, the toleration of differing ideas, and emotivism finds a needed alternative in James Rogers» response from a Christianity that observes how sin perpetuates «the indignity of the human person.»

But when a woman in this country wears a hijab people make fun of her, assault her, bar her and humiliate her even though wearing the hijab gives women dignity, it displays modesty, it prevents men from staring at her, and besides, what's the harm in wearing a hijab other than the weather getting a little humid outside?

In outlining the judicial decisions leading to same - sex marriage, Reilly demonstrates how the invocation of privacy law to protect gay sex quickly obscured the moral dignity of persons, especially children.

In a statement, Pope Francis said: «At a time when our human family is beset by grave humanitarian crises demanding far - sighted and united political responses, I pray that your decisions will be guided by the rich spiritual and ethical values that have shaped the history of the American people and your nation's commitment to the advancement of human dignity and freedom worldwide.

I did not see peace, comfort and dignity, only a person under the authority of others.»

Evangelical Catholicism draws the will, the energy, the strength, and, if necessary, the stubbornness to continue defending and promoting the dignity of the human person from the power of the gospel.

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

Additional reasons might be given for The United Methodist Church to rid itself of a commitment to abortion rights: the increasing numbers of African delegates (who are, in the main, pro-life) to General Conference; the horrifyingly high abortion rates (though the annual totals are continuing to decrease) in the United States; the pro-life drift of American public opinion (which United Methodism seems to follow); the uncommon clarity of ecumenical teaching on the dignity of the human person; and the providence of God.

If our people languish in dependency, while the means through which we might work toward our own advancement exist, then we have surrendered our claim to dignity and to the respect of our fellow citizens.

It's all about self control and respecting the dignity of the other person during the most beautiful act a man and woman can engage in, not turning it into the most popular contact sport of our generation.

If indeed choices «central to personal dignity and autonomy» are what lie at the heart of the liberty protected by due process of law, how can it be said that a terminally ill person's decision to end his or her life is any less «intimate and personal» than the decision to have an abortion?

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.

The Modern notion of individual autonomy is an attenuated or thinner version of the Christian conception of the dignity of the human person.

Leaders in the civil rights organizations as well as in the halls of Congress remain wedded to a conception of the black condition and to a method of appealing to the rest of the polity that undermine the dignity of our people.

As Tocqueville saw, without that upward thrust, belief in the inviolable dignity of every single person will not survive, nor will respect for truth in public discourse.

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.

Theologies were written to suggest that non-white people did not bear the image of God like white people did and were therefore not worthy of basic human dignity.

As Zmirak writes, Röpke «centered his economics in the dignity of the human person, who lives not alone but as part of a family and a community; who thrives or suffers according to the health of those institutions; and who regulates his own economic activity according toýfinancial and personal incentives that he» and not the State» is best equipped to interpret.»

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.

On November 29, Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, secretary of state, wrote to Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, the chief organizer of the letter of the 138, on behalf of the pope: «Common ground allows us to base dialogue on effective respect for the dignity of every human person, on objective knowledge of the religion of the other, on the sharing of religious experience, and, finally, on common commitment to promoting mutual respect and acceptance among the younger generation.

By telling people that they can not obey God in this area, the bishops undermine the human dignity of the working classes, and degrade their morality further.

«The violence against ideas and freedom and the dignity of the person — this is all modern, not medieval.

Moral beliefs include such concepts as duty, obligation, responsibility, and sacredness of the person, while manners include such beliefs and needs as communal harmony, cultural coherence, and dignity of the person.

It is not the amount of disobedience people are punished for, rather people are punished in proportion to the dignity of one they sinned against.

Contemporary cultures had lost a vital understanding of the foundations of human dignity and were increasingly marked both by disillusion and by a mechanical and instrumental account of the human person.

Further, it is not true that being killed by a fully autonomous military drone necessarily violates the dignity of the human person.

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.»