Word: self-respect
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...UNITED STATES NAVY is one of the more respectable ways of serving your country. "Anybody with any self-respect would spend his four years in the Navy in a closet," says Third Class Lary Dinger, a Michigan State graduate with a Master's Degree in history...
...must somehow be able to exert a proper influence without the stimulus of crisis. Crises only produce panic." Heath believes that if Britain does not produce more men who are willing to lead the kind of country they live in today, it will pay dearly in lost reputation and self-respect. By avowing that he and his party can inspire such leaders, he has set the criteria by which his own leadership will be judged...
...freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl, his own wife's selfless devotion, his father's love, a servant's self-respect. His obsessive sexuality is chillingly sexless...
...this stage of the game, nonviolence still works better than violence, but I wouldn't want to gamble on the next decade. If it turned out to be the only effective method, I wouldn't have anything against violence. The new black awareness has brought about new self-respect, a new dignity. It's been just rhetoric in the past, this "Give me liberty or give me death." But it's a fact with blacks now; they mean that and they live...
...Chezzie seems' to speak for many young blacks. According to Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, a close student of black children, "Black youth want what white youth want, what every American wants: a better home, a higher income, more respect from others as well as self-respect. The fact is that many of them are intensely loyal to the American consumer tradition." Insisting upon the right of black men to preserve their uniqueness while participating in the national wealth, they are claiming a distinct place in a pluralistic American society...