Word: self-respect
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...important consideration for DeLury in calling the 1968 strike was the self-respect of the sanitationmen. "Even now we're regarded as second-class citizens, though I don't believe it. But then we were really fighting for respect. Nobody can give respect--you gotta prove respect, get back in the public esteem. I still remember when the strike was called--half past four in the morning on February 4, 1968. Sure, I thought '68 could be negotiated, but they wouldn't give on just $25 more. Lindsay didn't know, nobody knew, what would happen when the sanitation workers...
Like too many American comic novelists, Maloney seems to lack self-respect. The Nixon Recession Caper is a reasonably funny - and unreasonably tame - piece of what gets called high jinks. May it prove successful enough to give Maloney the confidence to write the wild and offensive novel he is capable...
...they were open about their homosexuality they would lose their clients. A homosexual in Germany wrote: "Just seeing something like that in print has meant more to me than you can rightly imagine." Said another: "Nothing I have ever read has helped as much to restore my own self-respect...
...death penalty for murder in Britain. Speaking of earlier decisions to abandon the grotesque hanging, disemboweling and quartering of traitors, he said: "We did not abolish that punishment because we sympathized with traitors, but because we took the view that it was a punishment no longer consistent with our self-respect." It would be welcome, in a time of diminished self-respect, to take this particular step toward reasserting...
Director John Schlesinger and writer Penelope Gilliatt have created something free from self-pity or self-hate, even though they deal with the upper-middle-class. Their film starts with the question "Do you feel any pain?" It ends with the conclusion that people can retain emotional sensitivity, self-respect and respect for others if they are willing to build on the world that's given them. Some might say that the message is dull simply because it is quietist, or that it is appropriate only to these three people. Such reactions would--from whatever point-of-view--be puerile...