Dignity grants the human being membership in two communities, in the moral commonwealth – in the community of all human beings – and in a state.
Meanwhile, UKBA must restore some dignity by granting the wife and children of Jimmy Mubenga indefinite leave to remain in the UK, not least to enable them to participate in the inquiries.
I apologize Walt Whitman, when I was young you spoke to me, I would sit in the old church cemetery surrounded by the tombstones of patriots reading you out loud to the stray cats and you came to me, you sang to me, showed me myself in everyone and everything, taught me a democracy of the soul, to live in the rough and tumble world with dignity, to grant that same dignity to the people around me.
After all, many of us are privileged to be able to take the concept of dignity for granted, rarely, if ever, pausing to consider what dignity truly means--or how life would be different without it.
When the Emperor defeated the Schmalkaldic League at the Battle of Mühlberg (1547) with the aid of Maurice, the electoral dignity was granted to the Albertines.
"I think that the granting of dignity to all peoples was something the rabbis felt very strongly about," she said.
The dignity and affection granted by marriage should not be determined by whether you are gay.
The link between church and state was expressed in the civil dignity and insignia granted to bishops, who also began to be entrusted with ambassadorial roles.
They are the buffoons of the story, not to be trusted nor granted dignity.
And transcending that pattern in ourselves is the only way that we are ever going to really become players in creating a culture in which all human beings are granted dignity and respect.
