Word: self-respect
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...code there should be reciprocity between people, one should not accept gifts without paying them back. For China to be always receiving from the West not only hurts national pride. Being on the receiving end with no chance of repaying the favors of missionaries, for example, also hurts personal self-respect...
...will not," Hersey continued, "be swept up in the jealousies and power struggles of the faculty. He can be, he has to be--for he has nothing to lose otherwise but his self-respect--a champion of innovation and experimentation...
Last winter the Kiernan report, compiled by a distinguished committee of educators, public officials, and clerics, came out against racial imbalance. The report bluntly stated that de facto segregated schools erode the motivation and self-respect of Negro children, often lead to inferior facilities for Negroes, and encourage prejudice in both races...
...EMPEROR OF ICE-CREAM, by Brian Moore. A tough, uncompromising novel about a very young man who learns the value of self-respect by daring to meet the crises caused by an air raid during World War II. Author Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey) casts a cold eye on society but warms it with Irish...
...past decade; if he angrily refuses to look back over his shoulder to see how far he has come, he has nevertheless advanced along the road to full equality in U.S. society. Millions have achieved what Martin Luther King calls a "sense of somebodiness"−a new self-respect and selfesteem. To say, "I haven't got a chance" is to inflict a great self-injustice. There are at least 35 Negro millionaires in the U.S. Every sizable city has a large middle and upper middle class of Negro physicians, dentists, lawyers, judges and businessmen. They are just...