Word: self-respecting
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...Edison's Granville Charter School, which opened two years ago in a former government building in Trenton, N.J., board chairman William Granville Jr. recalls how students initially covered the walls with graffiti and ran shouting down hallways. Today, after hours of instruction devoted to such concepts as dignity and self-respect, orderly students file through spotless white corridors and volunteer to sweep litter off the carpeted floors...
Come on, folks, this isn't golf. This is his game. Sure, there's a learning curve, but it's only a matter of time before he figures it all out and has the Wizards on the road back to self-respect (and maybe, someday, even one of those cool rings...
...destiny of India," he would say. The thread went to make cloth for his followers, and he hoped his example would convince Indians that homespun could free them from dependence on foreign products. But the real point of the spinning was to teach appreciation for manual labor, restore self-respect lost to colonial subjugation and cultivate inner strength...
...Indians, Gandhi countered with a new idea--"passive resistance," securing political rights through personal suffering and the power of truth and love. "Indians," he wrote, "will stagger humanity without shedding a drop of blood." He failed to provoke legal changes, and Indians gained little more than a newfound self-respect. But Gandhi understood the universal application of his crusade. Even his principal adversary, the Afrikaner leader Jan Smuts, recognized the power of his idea: "Men like him redeem us from a sense of commonplace and futility...
...less harsh and more realistic way of looking at the situation, being friends with someone that cares about their appearance is probably a good thing--it shows that a person has enough self-respect to care for his or her appearance...