A Quote by Chen Guangcheng

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng

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Chen Guangcheng
Chinese - Activist
Born: November 12, 1971

I have heard it said that the measure of a civilization is how it treats those who have hurt it. I think a further measure is how it treats those who deeply disappoint it.

Mark Goulston

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Mahatma Gandhi

I might be botching this quote but I agree with the idea that a measure of society is not how it treats its most powerful but how it treats its most vulnerable, including the poor and incarcerated and - I would add to that - the people whose ideas are not currently in favor.

Shepard Fairey

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Samuel Johnson

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Ann Landers

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children.

Nelson Mandela

The ultimate test of a society's freedom is not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens; it's how it treats its dissidents.

Glenn Greenwald

You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged.

Bryan Stevenson

A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

J. K. Rowling

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.

Philip K. Dick

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Vince Lombardi

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Of all my father's teachings, the most enduring was the one about the true measure of a man. That true measure was how well he provided for his children, and it stuck with me as if it were etched in my brain.

Sidney Poitier

The measure of a decent human being is how he or she treats the defenseless.

Bill O'Reilly

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