Word: self-respecting
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Some organizations are trying to play down what NHSRA's Bauer calls the "super-gimp" image and are promoting sports for general fitness, recreation and sociability. But many of the handicapped need more than a pastime. For them, every obstacle hurdled is a measure of self-respect, competence and independence. Zoe Koplowitz, 40, has multiple sclerosis, yet she completed her first marathon this month. Her time in the New York race: 19 hr. 15 min. To prepare for running, she attended dance classes to develop a rhythmic gait, then took lessons in aikido to learn how to get up after...
Some policy analysts argue that, with an estimated $150 billion deficit this year, the U.S. cannot afford to tend to such people. But the truest index of a society is how it provides for its most vulnerable members. At stake is America's self-respect, the sense of community that binds it together, and its standing in the community of civilized nations...
...credits Reagan with restoring the country's economy and its self-respect. Reagan "gave this country a new confidence....He believed in American and in our future and he conveyed that to the American people...
...formulated a principle to live by: "Nothing they do can humiliate me. I alone can humiliate myself. Once I had absorbed that idea, nothing -- not searches, not punishments . . . not even several attempts to force-feed me through the rectum during an extended hunger strike -- could deprive me of my self-respect...
Second, America has more than self-respect to lose by refusing to talk turkey with its friend. It also could lose its friend, since the uncompromising right wing in Israel is only emboldened by America's failure to speak its mind. Eventually America, Jewish and Gentile, would not stand for destructive adamancy. If we failed to say so now, when there is still a chance to use criticism for positive results, we would surely say so later in a furious about-face that would appear sudden when it happened but that in fact would have been born in a deadly...