For some teenage musicians, the Rastafarian religion filled a deep hunger for dignity, belonging and the lost homeland, Africa.
His latest books are Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship?, Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity, Belonging: A Memoir, The Wisdom of Science, and The Rowan Tree: A Novel.
In supporting children's rights in such complex situations, the difficulty lies in developing approaches that tap the deeply rooted human rights principles that underlie all societies, including values and practices of dignity, belonging and justice, while simultaneously drawing on the gifts of young people – especially their experience, insights, honesty and compassion.
Spiegelberg [ 27] distinguishes between: the expression of dignity by inward and outward behaviour; dignity in general (a matter of degree); human dignity (minimum dignity which belongs to every human being qua human); intrinsic and extrinsic dignity; relational and absolute dignity; and dignity in itself (intrinsic worth) and ground for dignity and worthiness of respect.
From Abraham Lincoln to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, civil-rights presidents have helped people give up (some of) the perquisites of race in favour of the dignity of belonging to a (more) free country.
In other words, dignity and belonging are inextricably intertwined, and each requires the same three pathways for support: respect, recognition, and reciprocity.
When every action, every day is shaped by norms of kindness, dignity, safety, belonging, and accountability, bullying behavior never has a chance to take root.
All of us in Detroit merit respect and must see our diverse neighbors -- black, white, and brown; young and old; blue-collar and white-collar; lifelong residents and new transplants -- as people worthy of dignity and belonging in our proud and authentic city.
"[A]esthetic dignity," he claimed, "belongs to aesthetic magnitude as a part to the whole," but if a work of art represents moral agents then it cannot be maximally beautiful without representing moral dignity, and it certainly cannot be beautiful if it conveys an attitude contrary to morality.
Lu, who belongs to Dignity in Dying, a pro-assisted dying group, was electrified.
