Sentence examples for rightful dignity from inspiring English sources

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave Negroes some part of their rightful dignity, but without the vote, it was dignity without strength.

Mostly written in the three decades before the First World War, these charming bel canto airs are usually heard these days as virtuoso tenor encores; here, Heppner restores them to their rightful dignity as charming period settings of superior lyrics, full of buoyancy and grace.

"He was a man of true dignity and a wonderful role model as somebody who overcame the most extreme prejudices and circumstances to take his rightful place on the world stage," said Majola.

"This is a further step in the process of ensuring that Cuba occupies its rightful place of dignity in the region and throughout the world," said Bruce Golding, the prime minister of Jamaica.

"All people need dignity, right?

My family discriminated against me and denied me my rightful property rights.

The Bandaranaikes - husband and widow - unquestionably broke the stifling colonial ethos of the English-speaking elite, and restored dignity and a rightful place to the Sinhalese majority.

He's lucky to escape from the heist Logan drags him into with his life and a pair of earrings for his wife, and happy to sacrifice both his dignity and his rightful share of the take to do so.

The American Constitution Society calls itself a "progressive" group that seeks to ensure that "human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to justice enjoy their rightful, central place in American law".

Part of the vision statement of the organisation is that every person with a disability in SVG will take his or her rightful place in society, be treated with dignity and equality, and be given the opportunity to develop to their fullest potential.

His supporters will feel that by displaying defiance and by insisting that he remains Egypt's rightful president he will have preserved some dignity at a humiliating moment and reminded the wider world that the Brotherhood in Egypt has not gone away.