Word: self-respect
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...said the experience of posing as a panhandler was demeaning, and he learned from "the humiliation I had to go through, the loss of self-respect...
...vignettes, past and present, recount the trials the characters endure to emerge with a new sense of self-respect. The mothers' have achieved dignity by surmounting the oppressive conditions in China in the earlier half of this century: arranged marriage, polygamy and war. They have triumphed over these hardships through cunning and bravery, but for their daughters, the path is less clear. The youngwomen's problems are not so black-and-white; noris fleeing to another country an option...
...began to accept ourselves as belonging in the world as we are, and not as others wanted us to be. It's been said many times, but only because gay people still have to learn it one by one: coming out is the beginning and the pre-condition of self-respect, of self-confidence and of emotional participation in life...
...practice of intellectual analysis for DuBois to conquer impotence and allow self-respect," Carby said...
...school basketball stars. Its realism may be a bit rough-edged for parents, but it's about right for their older children. Sam Styles is a huge, self-apologetic, marvelously coordinated fellow who can't make a wrong move on a basketball court but struggles with dyslexia. Because his father and stepmother are loving and decent, and because a sharp-eyed teacher has worked to bring Sam's reading and self-respect up to where they should be, the boy has a good shot at steadying down to adulthood...