What she accomplished -- the insistence that she, at great personal cost and sacrifice, be accorded the dignity that all humans seek -- will always be her true legacy, whatever happens in the future.

My research helped me understand she was a human being with all the problems and foibles the rest of us had. She had a lot to hide, she thought. She wanted to preserve a sense of her own dignity. She preferred to be respected and admired rather than have intimate relationships with those close to her.

Like everybody else who admired her from afar, I had an iconic view (of Bates). I knew what everyone else thought they knew, what was in her book.

[His dignity restored, Holmes walked over to Tyson.] ---- you, ... You are a great champion.

Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him