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6. "They are our precious allies in the commitment to defend human dignity"
Wed Mar 20, 2013, 07:39 PM
Mar 2013

I like the phrase "human dignity" as used here. It is a great term, without religious connotation. I just checked in the
Catholic Social Doctrine and found that phrase is used 39 times (the word dignity itself is used 184 times). From that source:

A just society can become a reality only when it is based on the respect of the transcendent dignity of the human person. The person represents the ultimate end of society, by which it is ordered to the person: “Hence, the social order and its development must invariably work to the benefit of the human person, since the order of things is to be subordinate to the order of persons, and not the other way around”

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