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.
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.
Not exact matches
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.