Word: self-respect
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...Shame upon those in authority who will permit such a humiliating, disgraceful and dangerous thing to happen! Vhere are the white men of self-respect, of race pride? The great white race is the climax and crowning glory of God's creation. . . . The present disgusting and deplorable situation in New York State is not new under the modern Roman-Tammany system. Scores of Negroes in Harlem have been permitted to marry white wives with licenses granted by and with the hearty approval of the state and city government...
Flayed by the Lobby Committee in its fourth report, last week, was James A. Arnold, lobbyist for the Southern Tariff Association and the American Taxpayers League (TIME, Nov. 18) "Reprehensible," "utterly without regard for veracity," "no seeming sense of self-respect," were some of the Committee's characterizations of him and his activities. For the first time the Committee recommended legislation to "protect the public from this type of lobbying...
...against the new tyranny, Cohen, whatever his means and manner, has attempted to reassert our liberties and it is inappropriate. I think, for the CRIMSON or for anyone else to assume an amused and detached attitude toward the slightly ridiculous scuffle in Harvard Square. It is better for our self-respect to protest, instead of smiling when liberties which once meant much to us, are taken away; and we have not yet given our souls over to the custody of the police, whatever the appearances may be. Sincerely, Brinckerhoff Jackson...
Professor Rogers has now carefully explained his advice to young men of Technology that they train themselves to be snobs. He would have them become snobs divested of all snobbery. They are to cultivate self-respect, but equally are they to show respect for the rights and the human feelings of others. This is a dual feat which no snob of past history has ever accomplished, or tried to accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word...
...maintenance of independence against these subtler influences depends at last upon the personal and professional self-respect of newspaper men themselves. It depends upon how seriously they believe in their own work. N.Y. World