Respect yourself, and others will respect you.

We have always felt the sympathy of the world, but we would prefer the respect of the world to sympathy without respect.

When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should.

Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food.

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistake I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there. Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

The Porcupine, whom one must Handle, gloved, May be respected, but is never Loved.

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.