Sentence examples for on human dignity from inspiring English sources

I re-read "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," one of the greatest treatises on human dignity ever written.

The elimination of life and assault on human dignity dictated by the one-child policy belong with the worst tragedies of the past 100 years.

Defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as "particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of one or more human beings," these offenses are more than just isolated or sporadic events.

This attack is an assault on human dignity.

Rembrandt insists on human dignity, Velázquez is not so sure.

Many non-Catholics appreciate the church's insistence on human dignity against dehumanizing and uprooting trends of the modern world.

As directed by Kent Anderson, artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, which commissioned the work and presented it this year, it's a baldly forthright production with its emotions on its sleeve, preachy against injustice and on behalf of human dignity.

While acknowledging the limitations of any definition, this paper's focus will be more on the impact of social Darwinism in Germany, especially its impact on views of human dignity.

Decent work is about working conditions and security, as well as pay and is premised on recognition of human dignity.

On questions of human dignity and human ends, we tend to sputter and assert, setting out propositions that are difficult to justify to those who don't share them.

Which brings me to the fourth and final element of American leadership - our willingness to act on behalf of human dignity.