Sentence examples for common human dignity from inspiring English sources

He believes that it treats "members of the human race as nonhumans" — that "even the vilest criminal remains a human being possessed of common human dignity".

The most disturbing aspect of post-9/11 security measures is not the erosion of enumerated constitutional rights; it is the loss of common human dignity.

We envision a future where gender self-determination and authentic expression are seen as basic rights and matters of common human dignity.

After hearing Soliya's leadership speak about Terana, I am convinced it will empower young people around the world to find cooperative solutions to our most pressing global issues, while at the same time respecting our differences and honoring our common human dignity.

A wave of governmental hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities risks undermining the common values of "human dignity, freedom, equality and solidarity", in the words of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, upon which the European Union is founded.

Re "Pentagon Will Stop Importing Burmese Clothes for 1,400 PX's" (news article, Dec. 22): The criticism of the Burmese sales to United States military stores displayed the same one-dimensional thinking that places feel-good action ahead of common sense and human dignity.

Although it is common to invoke human dignity in condemning a wide range of nefarious and odious practices, proponents of human dignity are notoriously vague both on the general principles generated by human dignity and on how those principles tell against the activities in question (Macklin 2003).

If we can expose and embrace our common trait of human dignity, then we can end violence.

They must have foreseen the possibility that an insane level of agitation could trigger a movement so strong that it could prevail against common sense and human dignity.

"We're fed up with judges who make decisions that are contrary to the law, flying in the face of basic common sense and human dignity, and place children in danger," she said.

We will re-establish what it is to live in a democracy, with a water system that is part of the commons, that affirms human dignity and that ensures everyone's access".