Word: self-respect
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Regardless of any political agenda that might emerge from the book, Travels with Lizbeth remains a deeply personal account of a man trying to maintain his autonomy and humanity despite increasingly dehumanizing circumstances. Eighner observes his surroundings with an intelligence and wit that clearly mark the individuality and self-respect that enabled him to survive. Eighner's wry sense of humor allows him to stand back and analyze his experiences with perspicacity and insight, avoiding any melodramatic pathos that could cloud his realistic portrait of life on the streets...
...take more from these turbulent times than simple delight at the fall. We need to turn that into a positive enjoyment of our wonderful country and each other, working towards constructing a new nation that will accommodate differences but not tolerate abuses. We need a new sense of self-respect and self-worth...
...emergency rooms, not ODs and bad trips. Then there's the perverse financial logic of prohibition. The billions we spend a year on drug-related law enforcement represents money not spent on improving schools and rebuilding neighborhoods. Those who can't hope for the lasting highs of achievement and self-respect are all too often condemned to crack...
...truly interesting issue surrounding black anti-Semitism has to do with the blacks. For one thing, why, of all people, the Jews? What is to be gained by blacks -- what in the way of genuine strength, energy, sense of possibility, self-respect -- in taking up so old and rusty a cudgel? Very little, one might suppose, if what they were actually pursuing were such necessities as energy, possibility and self-respect. Anti-Semitism does, however, provide the blacks with a simulacrum of toughness -- of all the people they might hit, the Jews are least likely to exact equal retribution...
...help me; they looked right through me as if I weren't there. Plus, it's impossible to eat lunch at Quincy House--too many stairs. I had to get out and walk up them. I learned from the humiliation I had to go through, the loss of self-respect. A lot of people have no legs and it's really terrible. Do you think maybe the Undergraduate Council could do something about...