Word: self-respect
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...Senators on both sides of the aisle, Whence comes the offense? How long shall we endure, how long shall we be patient, how long shall we forbear to assert our self-respect, to demand our rights as men and Americans, and to find our place in the sun of this our blessed land...
...Constitution of the United States, if it was a conspiracy at all. If he led a conspiracy, I was one of the conspirators. Of course they would say, ' "Cotton Ed" Smith, that dirty dog, yes. . . .' If the people of the South organize and stand by their self-respect, if they organize and say 'We are going to vote for the man of our choice,' there will never be another Democratic President-I mean of a certain variety...
...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...
...unhappiness. They have got all the tragic elements essential to the human lot to contend with; time and death and bereavement and unrequited affection and dissatisfaction with themselves. But they have not got the elements of consolation and encouragement that ought normally to renew their hopes or restore their self-respect. They have not got vision or conviction, or the mastery of their work, or the loyalty of their household, or any form of human dignity. Even the latest Utopians, the last lingering representatives of that fated and unfortunate race, do not really promise the modern man that he shall...
...there was only one thing to do. Rod Sullivan knew the verdict. He knew his own self-respect would not let him fly the ocean again. The Navy, which had trained him, wanted him back. Almost any airline would have been glad to have him for what he could do and what he knew...