I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a mans self-respect is a sin. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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