I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.
John D. Rockefeller 
The Sixth Annual Global Dignity Day is scheduled for Wednesday, October 16th, 2013, and will be celebrated in over 50 countries around the world.

Inspiring Action on a Worldwide Scale

During the 2005 Forum of Young Global Leaders, John Hope Bryant sat down with HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway and Professor Pekka Himanen of the University of Art and Design Helsinki and Oxford University. The topic of their conversation was something even more basic than financial literacy and economic justice: it was the concept of universal human dignity.

Each felt that our world was on the verge of a great opportunity for change. But to make it happen would require a fundamental shift in the attitudes, actions, and public policies supported by government figures at every level—toward assuring the dignity of each human being under their leadership

Global Dignity is the brainchild of three friends, concerned global citizens who met as Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum: HRH Crown Prince Haakon (Norway), Professor Pekka Himanen (Finland) and founder of Operation HOPE, John Hope Bryant (United States).

The three friends realized that the one thing that everyone in the world could agree on, irrespective of their differences is: We all want our Dignity to be recognized. Dignity is the very foundation of our humanity. Dignity is universal. Dignity is also the source of human rights.

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

                                  Aristotle