"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."
"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect"Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
Albert Einstein on Respect"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
Albert Einstein on Respect"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
Malcolm X on Respect"If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
Abraham Lincoln on Respect"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."