We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of vigilance and dignity in our treatment of every human being throughout life.
Richard John Neuhaus's quote speaks to the moral duty we have to uphold the dignity of every human person. It highlights the need for constant vigilance and commitment in our actions and words, ensuring that we honor and protect the humanity of individuals at all stages of life. It serves as a reminder that our responsibilities extend beyond mere tolerance; we must actively advocate for and witness the dignity of every person we encounter.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about human rights.
Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair
Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.
Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.
If the cause of poverty is marginalization, the cure is inclusion.
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
Rights are best guarded when each person and group guards for others those rights they wish guarded for themselves.
How often it consoles me to think of barbarism once more flooding the world, and real feelings and passions, however rudimentary, taking the place of our wretched hypocrisies.
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.
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