Leila Janah

We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

American Businesswoman

Randa Abdel-Fattah

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

Palestinian Writer

Safak Pavey

Families with disabled children are praying for their kids to die before them because they have no support systems. They are very scared about who will take care of their kids and how their kids will have a dignified life after they die.

Turkish Diplomat

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

I believe that every American should have stable, dignified housing; health care; education - that the most very basic needs to sustain modern life should be guaranteed in a moral society.

American Politician

Zygmunt Bauman

There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

Polish Sociologist

Alicia Garza

My definition of feminism is a social, political, economic system by which all genders are valued, respected, and can live dignified lives.

American Activist

Gretchen Carlson

All women deserve a dignified and respectful workplace in which talent, hard work and loyalty are recognized, revered, and rewarded.

American Journalist

Princess Stephanie of Monaco

You have to help people who are living with AIDS. Help them to live as dignified a life as they can.

Monacan Royalty

Booker T. Washington

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

American Educator

Manisha Koirala

One has to stay dignified about whatever is happening in life.

Nepalese Actress

Using 'dignify' often implies a positive feeling about the subject, suggesting its worthiness and merit.

Positive Connotation

The word 'dignify' is a verb, often followed by 'the' and a noun which is the recipient of increased importance.

Verb Usage

'Dignify' is about perception and status, not physically altering something.

Not Physical Change

To 'dignify' something with a response is to treat it as though it is important enough to warrant attention.

Serious Acknowledgment

Don't use 'dignify' for trivial matters; the term implies the subject is significant or deserves consideration.

Avoid Trivial Things

Using 'dignify' can show respect for a person or idea, often in a formal or public setting.

Reflecting Respect

 who said some very unkind, inappropriate, dare I say racial things. You have responded to him. I'm not even going to dignify what he said, but you responded. Why did you respond? Well, I think there are very inappropriate comments, and not only that, I've been really supportive of my peers and the people that I've worked with. I've been a pro for almost 20 years,

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 And the kids were great, hand-selected by the principals and the librarian. It just kind of created this heroic atmosphere in this library, this very dignified setting below and the joy of the children above. So naturally all the other librarians in the other schools see this and they said, well, we want murals too.

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 I mean, I have teenage kids. I should know. It was about a boyfriend. The girl on the top, she'd kissed the wrong boy, and they'd started having a fight. And there was a very, very beautiful lesson for me in If I was going to photograph these people in the dignified, respectful way that I had intended,

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 like a lot of patients that I have the privilege of caring for, is a dignified person, a formidable presence, a personality that's larger than life, but here she was doubled over in pain sitting on my exam table. Her head, clearly throbbing, was resting in her hands. She lifted her head up,

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 they built a Boulevard that has become the main street for their town and it's transformed from being an ugly unsafe undesirable address to becoming a beautiful attractive dignified sort of good address I mean now we're hoping we'll get start to see it they've

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 we are to see ourselves dignified in these public and institutional spaces everything that I do with my work and the people who I photograph for stories and themes of social justice paid access to water and sanitation or safe housing

Storytellers Summit Day...

 have a dignified space to cater for their needs they don't have to miss school anymore and we've also created hundreds of jobs filled by young people like our teammate Brenda who earns a good income it supports her family and

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 In the middle of the day in an old, abandoned slate quarry. Such a wise and dignified animal, Just like other nocturnal owls like the barn owl. They have ears on different levels on their head.

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 So it is folly to create an economy that makes a university diploma a necessary condition of dignified work and a decent life. Encouraging people to go to college is a good thing.

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 with justice and equality. It is a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives,