"We'll have to come back to respecting humanity and respecting ourselves".
"The conflicts arise when individuals do not respect humanity, do not respect each other and do not help one another," she said.
Not having diatribes but speaking to them as people: if you have orders, and you know that they're wrong, will you obey them or will you choose to respect humanity and your morality?" she said.
It is crucial, for Kant, that each person respects humanity in others, as well as humanity in their own person.
For example, one can argue that rational nature is to be respected not only by respecting humanity in someone's person but also by respecting things that bear certain relations to rational nature, for example, by being fragments of it or necessary conditions of it.
In The Metaphysics of Morals (1797), Kant argues for specific duties to oneself generated by the general duty to respect humanity in our persons, including duties to not engage in suicide, misuse of our sexual powers, drunkenness and other unrestrained indulgence of inclination, lying, self-deception, avarice, and servility.
Though they differed in many of their opinions, they respected the humanity of each other in a way that attenuates conflict and promotes harmony.
But he always insisted on realistic solutions, on respecting immigrants' humanity and giving them the chance to become legal.
And by paying attention and respecting the humanity of the men who come here, that is what we do".
