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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.

— Bayard Rustin

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Source: The Mirage of Dignity on the Highways of Human 'progress': - the bystanders' perspective - , by Lukman Harees, p xv, 2012.
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