Full Idea
If you want to discriminate more finely what makes humans worthy of respect, you must call to mind the claim of human suffering, or what is repugnant about justice, or the awe you feel about human life.
Gist of Idea
To have respect for people, you must feel their claims, or their injustices, or hold them in awe
Source
Charles Taylor (Sources of the Self [1989], §1.1)
Book Reference
Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.8
A Reaction
A persuasive part of the claim that such feelings are inseparable from thinking about people in any way at all.