Word: self-respect
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...inserted in. the 18th Amendment, so that Congress can from time to time alter Prohibition to fit changing conditions. Having voiced that suggestion, and in the absence of a positive agreement having (all except Commissioner Lemann) signed their negative list of "Conclusions & Recommendations," the Commissioners sought to preserve their self-respect by appending to the joint Report their separate, personal opinions and convictions...
Another explanation is necessary, then, in order that Harvard's self-respect at least may survive. Perhaps the cause may be found in that traditional characteristic of indifference which is said to be inherent in all students at this college. When there is no actual motive for trading haymakers with somebody, especially if you do not know him, an already acquired habit of indifference is likely to act as a double deterrent. This is particularly true if you suspect that you are being recruited as cannon-fodder for some fast-stepping varsity cauliflower vender...
...cheek to jowl, sat whites and blacks, men and women, boys and girls, for the "Live-at-Home" movement included Negroes. Newsmen remarked with astonishment upon the sudden evaporation of race prejudice. Negroes spoke from the same rostrum as Governor Gardner about the "recovery of their race's self-respect." Declared Governor Gardner...
...class, kept out of games and parties, criticized by his teacher for manual and emotional immaturity. Gifted girls have the special problem of wanting and being able to do many of the things custom forbids them. They must adjust themselves "to a sense of sex-inferiority, without losing self-respect and self-determination, on the one hand, and without becoming morbidly aggressive on the other...
Last week, prompted by Tuskegee Institute's Robert Russa Moton, the foremost newspaper in the land, august New York Times, announced that it would make the typographical change from n to N "as an act in recognition of racial self-respect for those who have been for generations in 'the lower case...