January - Respect
Treat yourself, others and the environment with dignity.
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.
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Immanuel Kant, 18th century Prussian geographer and philosopher
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American humorist, author and journalist
The highest result of education is tolerance.
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Helen Keller, 20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social activist, public speaker and author
The equal toleration of all religions . . . is the same thing as atheism.
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Pope Leo XIII
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.
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Bonaro Overstreet
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
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W.H. Auden, 20th-century English poet
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
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Jesse Jackson, 20th-century American political activist, preacher
Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
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Elvis Presley, 20th-century American celebrity entertainer
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Jonathan Swift, 17th/18th-century English satirist
The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
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Ann Landers, 20th-century American newspaper "advice" columnist
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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William Hazlitt, early 18th-century English essayist and literary critic
