This article is adapted from a talk that
Bob Fuller recently gave at a TEDx event in Berkeley, appearing in both
Huffington Post and
Psychology Today. Both versions are linked here.
Robert Fuller Author, “Somebodies and Nobodies” and “All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity”
Dignity is not negotiable.
– Vartan Gregorian
Dignity on the March
Across North Africa and the Middle East to South and East Asia, the hunger for dignity is driving unrest and heralding social transformation. Everywhere, people are refusing to be taken for nobodies; they're demanding to be treated like somebodies.
A new dream is taking hold: people are sensing the possibility of building societies in which dignity is universal and secure. Life is hard, yes, and we remain vulnerable to natural catastrophes, but couldn't we disallow the indignities to which we subject one another?
Click here for the Psychology Today version….
