is the traffickers dignity question? why is my dignity question? one of the definitions of dignity is self-respect. that is what was stolen from me, not my self-respect but my sense of self-respect. i stand before you and up until when i started speaking i questioned why i am here. why do i get to speak. my fellow survivors who cannot speak english. why not the young man or boy because he was not a girl being raped? why not somebody who has tattoos and did not get a college education? because of those why's i'm here. i can give them voice. those people, my friends, the survivor friends of those who did not survive, there is an equal amount of self-respect you give me today. that is why i am here. to ask as we move to end slavery that we look within our own lives and don't see traffickers has horrible people out there. what about the 15-year-old boy who was recruited by his father to become a trafficker? he himself was a victim. or what about people in severe poverty who have no other opportunity? the only thing they can do is sell another human bei

ros, how do you start giving a child the dignity that was taken away? >> i'm actually going to use an example that might seem a little far-flung for that question. one of the things i wanted to talk about with colleagues is the write up process when they cuss you out in the classroom or the hallway. i was in chicago in may and already the strike talk was coming up and talking to some of the teacher. one of the teachers said i don't know what to do about this bullying thing because the kids are cussing me out in the hallway and all i can do is write them up. i think that's a moment i'd like us to think about in terms of empowerment of the teacher. it might be the case that the teacher doesn't feel for a lot of different reasons that she can't depend on his principal to back her up and maybe that principal their best, too. but one of the things i want us it look at in terms of treating children with dignity, which means they are worthy, two things. respect as a word is overused in schools and if i could frankly take down all of the banners of in schools t

this was a tough task to inspire other to serve with dignity and self-respect. chris knew how to do that. nothing we can say here can make up for the heart ache and pain which brings less to his family. we hope family members will draw solace and strength in our coming together around his life and service in a joyful way that shows how deeply we miss chris. i still have chris last message on my e-mail. he wrote hello, tom. it is exciting times in tripoli. with election and new congress coming together. as i read libya's recent history it is a bit like we are reliving the post world war ii years. how right he was. that was chris. always thinking, always sharp, always ready. public service is too often looked down upon by some in this country. often my colleagues in the foreign service la meant they don't make them the way they used to anymore. today we remember a man, chris stevens, whose life and service just proves how wrong my colleagues really are. chris shows us they still make them the way they used to, only an awful lot better, thank you. [applause] >> chr

dignity health -- see if i can find my paper here. dignity held, as some of you know, formally known as catholic healthcare west. we've changed our name about a month ago. we have been in the city about as long as did the government. about 1854. we represent a handful of organizations which are still in san francisco operating continually over 150 years to provide all of us service. in our case, its health care at st. francis and st. mary's hospital. our familiarity with the county and government starts from the very day that the sisters of mercy, who came over from ireland, got off on a clipper ship down by north beach. within a day, they got a knock on their door where they were staying. it was members of the san francisco board of supervisors who came to ask them to open san francisco general hospital, which they did. they ran it for four years until a very familiar thing happened, and that was the county board of supervisors had a dispute about how to pay health care bills. the sisters said we've had enough of that and went on to

it's not just about food and housing, but it's about dignity and stability and respect. respect for that spark of divinity that exists in every person, respect for the possibilities as tyrone has pointed out to us and for giving back. god bless you, tyrone for not only turning your life around, but for giving back. [ applause ] so father, we have been together on many occasions, like this and father is the president of usf and he knows that this city of st. francis has been a city. when they talk about san francisco values, i take it in the most complimentary way. the values of st. francis and that is exactly what we are doing on this corner today, being channels of god's peace, giving love and light where it had not existed. but to thank each and every one of you for what you do. our mayor has been sort of the catalyst. he is where a lot of this comes together, public policy, private philanthropy and non-profit collaborations all works with the spark that makes it just ignite in a much bigger way. and he has been really a champion in that regard, not just as the mayor o

but it has to be with the authority of you talking eye to eye with this kid with respect, with dignity. because it's not cool to just give it to the principal because the principal all day would be doing the write up and that frankly does not help the teacher's authority in that hall in that moment. they have to have the power, to have the authority at that moment you just called me a b i know you are 6 foot 4, i know you are mumbling but i still heard it. i respect you enough that i'm talking to you face to face. i'm not going to write this up right now because i expect this problem will be done. are we good? in my experience when you talk to kids like that, they stop because you are coming at them with respect. the last thing i would do is go to the target when nobody is looking, hey, i need some help with something. as you are walking down the hallway, hey, the thing i saw in the hallway yesterday, i don't know if that was playing or what it was, but from my end that doesn't seem right to me. you know you can always come to me. i know i'm not your teacher, i know i don't have all th

if you got an unlawful order or a lawful order, but somehow called into question your dignity or dignityof politics. you are responsible for bringing that up and partly the reason i was there that is because that was a small potatoes item that could blossom into a huge fiasco if you're at sea a lawyer. and so, not so much sent to ship a very response about individual leadership is required. >> host: finally, professor sherman, what is to take away from this book? >> guest: to take away on the spoke in my future work is tied to the servicemen and women you see coming off the plane from the airport. i stand if they are your neighbors, with it and, they're amongst us. they have been serving us with a heavy burden and share the burden in some way but then and try to understand not just a visible was, the physical injuries, but the invisible wounds they may not so easily talk about the same way. and maybe even learn from them. >> host: you typed about future work. >> guest: i'm not taking about the returning soldier, making peace with war, how to come home and be resilient, the tempo for the

in 1950 father alfred stood where they are standing today and recognized the dignity, and the struggles of those out of work, veterans suffering the effects of world war ii and those battling addictions. he brought together civic leaders, hotel owners, captains of industry, and willing volunteers from the painters and electrical unions and that coming together on this street corner became st. anthony's dining room. after a few years, because there always seemed to be enough food to feed everyone, no one was ever sent away empty. this coming together became known as the miracle on jones street. our presence here today signals to all of san francisco that the miracle continues. we're not turning water into wine. we're not turning water into wine, not that kind of miracle. no we're transforming old auto body shops into a state-of-the-art dining room and homes for our senior citizens. the miracle continues. [ applause ] we're not walking on water or raising the dead, but we are building homes and providing clothing and social services that will help people live lives of dignity and meaning.

it may be inherent dignity and in alienable rights of every warming, a man, boy, and girl be honored. make all your people, especially -- and may all your people, especially the least of these flourished in our blessed nation. 150 years after the emancipation proclamation and 50 years after the march on washington we celebrate the. spiritof our ancestors. it is a nation of on bormann hopes and a history of this enfranchised folks to the union. -- to the expression of a more perfect union. we ask that where our past was riddled by pangs of despair and depression, we ask for your guidance toward the light of delivery and that the vision of -- of deliverance and that the vision of those who came before us and in dreamed of this day, that we recognize their vision still inspire us. they are unseen by the naked eye. all around us, thankful that they are living was not in vain. for every mountain, you gave us the strength to climb. your grace continues that climb for america and the world. we now stand beneath the shadow of the nation's capital whose golden dome reflects the unity and democ

they're losing dignity and self-determination.so this creates many barriers for our women to be healthy and make choices that they want for their families. >> and your experience is it is harder today than it was 20 years ago, 30 years ago? >> i think something like more than 90% of all counties don't have abortion providers. i want to point out that most -- probably that many counties also don't have birthing centers, where women can go and have an alternative to an over-medicalized birth. >> so when you're targeting clinics that provide abortion care, those clinics are also providing prenatal care, they're providing cervical cancer screenings, they're providing breast screenings, and sexuality education. so when you're targeting those clinics and those clinics have to shut down, you're also depriving a whole community from basic, basic health services that are critical. >> i wanted to ask you, you talked about economic issues involved in these decisions. how much of this is an issue of class? i ask because the late congressman h

it was belief in the dignity of every individual. our belief in our own responsibility to advance the common good and our understanding and belief that we're all in this together and that tomorrow can be better than today if, with god's grace, we choose to make it so. progress is a choice. job creation is a choice. whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less, this, too, is a choice. our story, maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results. no other state can say at once and hold your applause that they are number one in education five years in a row, number one in holding down the cost of college tuition, number one in innovation and entrepreneurship, number one in human capital capacity, number one in access to dental care for all children regardless of income, number one in ph.d. scientists and researchers, number one in research and development, number one in businesses owned by women, and number one in median income and we're not done yet. [ applause ] as we emerge, as we emerge, and we

good constitutional principles based on sound arguments derived on the idea for equal respect from dignity. i debate to religious liberty including roger williams and john locke and equal respect for conscience and the burden it imposes on the government and policy, led to a tradition that government may not substantially burden and exercise of religion without the public interest. i defend those ideas from other nations as well. the second prong of the approach that i focus tonight, the need for consistency and self examination to the approach of other people. many policies lack the self examination, the basic virtue to have a coherent and consistent policy. many are flawed in did deeper way that people act in ways to give there own group special privileges and refuse to apply this same law to all people. the third prong, even with the principles and reasoning we need more. inactive, curious imagination, interested in learning about the lives of others and coming to see how the world looks from other points of view. and looking from adults and children to promote the and the standing. i u