Word: self-respect
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...that, "we believe that the schools have failed of their fullest attainment because of undemocratic administration. . . that servility breeds servility, and that if the schools are to produce free, unafraid men, American citizens of the highest type, the teachers must live and work in an atmosphere of freedom and self-respect...
...Wife & Texas. Afire with self-respect, Representative Patton stomped into the hearing room next day with an empty cigar box, two Department of Agriculture books wrapped in a newspaper. He was there, he explained, for the sake of "the great State of Texas," and "the pretty little country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That...
...when the poisonous dart lay ready to our tongue at the needful moment, and we have loosed it sharp and straight at some man's folly-but it hit his heart. It struck in those mysterious depths where each man tries to maintain a little shy and secret self-respect...
...framing of Mose. Yet she finds that many who avoided her during the trial congratulate her for her courage after her defeat, discovers among her neighbors many who feel as she does but who shamefacedly keep silent, fearing public opinion far more than they fear the loss of self-respect or the reproach of a troubled conscience...
...readers of the CRIMSON that among the problems still awaiting solution is that of facilitating the settlement in Palestine of millions of Jews, pushed out of their countries of residence by economic or by official pressure, and of permitting them to live there in conditions of safety and self-respect. That this solution of the Jewish problem would be eminently just, has been acknowledged after the war by all civilized countries, including the United states (Sec: U. S. Department of State; Mandate for Palestine, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1927). Since then, the situation of the Jews in Europe became...