My response is that the church needs to start defending the basic dignity of all people, including those with whom they disagree.
More fundamentally, Voillat says, wearing a pair of shoes confers basic dignity on a person.
Nearly half a million households in the United States lack the basic dignity of hot and cold running water, a bathtub or shower, or a working flush toilet, according to the Census Bureau.
Maybe an elected county official who can't be bothered to follow the law, do her job, or respect the basic dignity of her fellow-citizens is actually a civil-rights hero.
The whole time, what impelled me forward was a belief in the basic dignity of every individual, the value of all types of work, and the conviction that we are all connected to one another.
If we look at Jesus' teaching on divorce, we discover that he was challenging a patriarchal system that denied the basic dignity of women.
So let me be clear, Senator Murkowski: Your support for Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General is a failure to recognize the humanity and basic dignity of the peoples of color, indigenous peoples, immigrants, and refugees in Alaska.
His very candidacy is mathematical proof that Washington is irrevocably broken, and with every offensive utterance and harrowing affront to the basic dignity of civil service he confirms his voters' view that D.C. deserves not a mote more than someone like him -- that is, a non-politician who clearly will bring to Washington (in the view of the Trumpets) the paradox of generative destruction.
"Torture violates the basic dignity of the human person that all religions, in their highest ideals, hold dear.
Nevertheless, however much they differed, in these two social theorists of the Enlightenment is to be found the germ of all modern liberalism: its faith in representative democracy, in civil liberties, and in the basic dignity of human beings.
