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"You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance."

"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it."

"If you are going down with dignity, you will be admired as if you are going up!"

"Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity."

"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
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"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics."


"If the right to privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion."


"We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents."


"The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment."


"Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment."
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