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Some of the startups that pitched include HAIL - A-HUSTLE, an e-commerce platform that seeks to develop business potential through its diverse products, and Usafi Sanitation, a startup that wants to improve sanitation and improve human dignity by providing schools and communities with proper sanitation by installing eco-friendly toilets and eliminating pit latrines.

On Thursday, April 26, CPCS had the pleasure of honoring exceptional members of our community — attorneys from the public and private counsel divisions, as well as a social worker, investigator and administrative professional — who work tirelessly to insure that CPCS meets our mission: to fight for equal justice and human dignity by supporting our clients in achieving their legal and life goals; to zealously advocate for the rights of individuals; and to promote just public policy to protect the rights of all.

From there the group established a vision of advancing self - sufficiency and human dignity by providing safe, stable, well - designed tiny homes in a village setting for those who need them most.

It was a way of securing human dignity by limiting government.

Nevertheless, the nation - state can foster social and political bonds that enhance human dignity by fostering solidarity.

It really is amazing the power in giving a person simple human dignity by looking them in the eye, learning their name, listening to their story and offering to love them no matter how broken or poor they are.

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With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step - by - step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity — principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

There are some discreditable reasons: like Victorians offended by the suggestion that they were descended from apes, some humanists imagine that their dignity is threatened when human society is represented as the moral equivalent of a dish on a turntable.

Rather than discuss the fine points about social insurance programmes and human dignity, repeating urban myths about Loto 10/42 is now accepted expert media commentary from a distinguished economist being interviewed by Don Newman.

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.

Can a regime, no matter how powerful, become the world's lodestar if it is morally corrupted by an utter disregard for the dignity and sanctity of human life?

Human Dignity in the Biotech Century: A Christian Vision for Public Policy edited by Chrles W. Colson and Nigel M. De S. Cameron Intervarsity.

By the time Pope Benedict XVI addressed the U.N. General Assembly on the sixtieth anniversary of the UDHR in 2008, opportunistic uses of human rights were in full swing, prompting the pope to announce, «Efforts need to be redoubled in the face of pressure to reinterpret the foundations of the Declaration and to compromise its inner unity so as to facilitate a move away from the protection of human dignity towards the satisfaction of simple interests, often particular interests.»

• Wesley Smith says yes, Ross Blackburn says no, to the question of whether one can use secular arguments to defend human dignity, arguing in the pages of the Human Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden Maffhuman dignity, arguing in the pages of the Human Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden MaffHuman Life Review, the always interesting and ever - useful quarterly edited by our good friend Maria McFadden Maffucci.

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.

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.

With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.

Perhaps John of Salisbury would remind us today that the only laws in conformity with equity are those that protect the sacredness of human life and reject the licitness of abortion, euthanasia and bold genetic experimentation, those laws that respect the dignity of marriage between a man and a woman, that are inspired by a correct secularism of the State, a secularism that always entails the safeguard of religious freedom and that pursues subsidiarity and solidarity at both the national and the international level.

This is another human dignity often trampled by the church: the right to disclose as much or as little as you wish, and still be welcomed, encouraged, supported.

That this provision has now been challenged by a health board is deeply troubling and symptomatic of an aggressive pro-abortion regime; it is also a sign of a weakening in regard for human conscience as the safeguard of human dignity.

Respect for human rights requires the protection of the communities and associations by which a culture of human dignity either flourishes or dies.

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

«It bears fruits of hope and dignity where there are deprivation and exclusion, hunger and unemployment; where there are migrants and refugees, so often rejected by today's culture of waste, and victims of the drug trade, human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery,» he said.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

The other, «liberal,» possibility is to celebrate the human freedom and dignity bestowed by God upon us.

The erosion by stealth of a common language defining the innate dignity of human sexuality has been clear for those with eyes to see.

The great St John Paul said that religious freedom is «the basis of all other freedoms and is inseparably tied to them by reason of that very dignity which is the human person» (letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, 1978).

In this tradition human dignity or the endowed inalienable rights are secured by transcending purpose, not by calculated human determination.

It's a movement led by and for women, women who aren't asking for some sort of paternalistic «protection» because they are fragile females, but rather to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve simply because they are human beings.

It is hoped that the socialist society, as visualized by Marx, gives people more social justice and security, more human dignity, more free time, better standards of living etc..

Women from Latin America say the same: «The Bible is a book about life and liberation... The Gospels restore to women our human dignity as persons loved and cherished by God.

Human dignity had been replaced by pride and we all know where that comes from.

All human beings, irrespective of their sexual inclinations or «orientation,» have an intrinsic dignity, are loved by God, are offered God's mercy and grace, and can lead lives of holiness.

By stressing transnational bonds, the cosmopolitan perspective affirms the equality of persons and universality of human dignity.

Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu, Dorothy Day, the French Protestants who resisted fascism and protected Jews, Buddhist monks in Vietnam and many, many others were led by their religious convictions to fight for human dignity and human rights.

This «something» is precisely human nature: this nature is itself the measure of culture and the condition ensuring that man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures, but asserts his personal dignity by living in accordance with the profound truth of his being.

We have every reason to value the dignity of human beings, and to praise the faculty of reason as something given to us by a loving God.

When the Chinese dictatorship is replaced by a more humane regime» and one may reasonably think it is more a matter of when than if» the Christian proposal could have a world - transforming effect in aligning that society with the cause of human dignity.

John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

The adversary is not a fellow human with dignity (before God and the law) equal to one's own, but an opportunity to prove one's manly qualities by facing danger and shedding blood.

It is interesting that Stephen Law actually denies that human beings, just by virtue of being human, have any unique dignity.

That constitutes, according to the fathers of the Church, the special dignity of human beings, and it should have been treated by Jenson in the section on «human personhood.»

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

But in our age those themes have been given a much more acute vitality by spokespersons for the minorities and majorities whose human dignity has been denied by oppressive social structures.

«It's never a bad time to look at human respect and, by extension, human dignity,» he says.

They have not lifted human quality primarily by thundering against sin; they have lifted it by heightening the positive conception of life's dignity and value.

However, ironically, the unprecedented scale of human suffering and misery caused by harsh mega competition, liberalization of trade and investment, in the era of globalization motivates millions of victimized people to resist and fight back for survival and human dignity.

The Marxist - Leninist vision of the future — what Czech novelist Milan Kundera described as «organized forgetting» — is now supplanted by a leader who knows that remembering is redemptive, that human dignity is finally an expression of the inexpressible mystery.

But because this human life is shaped by human powers and capacities, it invites us to «think in terms of comparative degrees of human distinction or dignity — and of some as more dignified than others.»