Word: self-respect
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...take no satisfaction in invading Italian soil. . . . But we are determined to destroy the false leaders and their doctrines, which have brought Italy to her present position. . . . The time has now come for you, the Italian people, to consult your own self-respect and your own interest and your own desire for a restoration of national dignity, security and peace. The time has come for you to decide whether Italians shall die for Mussolini and Hitler-or live for Italy and for civilization...
...compounded of the stories of the people involved in the murder - Grayling, the murdered man, over 50, grey-eyed, thin, inquisitorial, cold, churchwarden, town councilor, Home Guardsman, petty grafter, a tyrant to his young and pretty wife; Renata, 38, brown-haired, self-seeking, moodily vengeful; Ransom, pickpocket, fugitive, a World War I veteran recovering his self-respect in the Battle of Britain; Mannheim, a German refugee chemist, possibly a spy, square, dark, smuggled out of Germany...
...missionaries themselves are leaders -but that is not all the point. They teach the people to provide their own leadership . . . develop . . . a sense of wellbeing, of self-reliance, of self-respect. . . . And that, I believe, is one of the chief causes for the good will toward the United States that now exists in almost every corner of the earth...
Said the report: "The recognition and fostering of the self-respect and dignity of the individual lies at the foundation of a labor economy in a democracy. Our aim must be the achievement of a standard of living compatible with that dignity. . . . No nation has as yet fully achieved that objective. . . . The Commission cannot forbear the hope that its report will make some modest contribution to the material and moral progress of the conditions of labor in Bolivia...
...most vilified celebrity, Ickes never fails to put his worst foot forward, to beg for brickbats ("Me? I don't mind.") Few readers will be deceived by this psychological strategy. Out of these ungainly, ranting pages it is Harold Ickes, not his enemies, who emerges with self-respect, however camouflaged, and integrity, however raucous...