Word: self-respecting
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...Negroes need to recover their self-respect. Though sit-ins have not accomplished much materially, they have given Negroes cause for pride: whites have had to bargain with them as equals. Similarly, by stressing Negro superiority -racist though that message is-the Black Muslims have had astonishing success straightening out the lives of lower-class Negroes, curing them of drug addiction, alcoholism and self-hate...
...religious passion in a monumental new cathedral spire. Opposed to his zeal is the practicality of the Master Builder, who points out that the cathedral's foundation will not support a spire. Father Jocelin gets it built by sheer force of will, in the process destroying the builder's self-respect and trampling on his old colleagues--neglecting the portentous advice that a solid spire "goes down as far as it goes up." At the end as the spire totters, Jocelin comes to recognize the human cost his fervor has exacted. He emerges from the destruction of his hopes able...
...heady good-natured nonsense, A Country Scandal hints at personal tragedies and deplores the empty hypocrisy of country life. The dissolute socialites act like buffoons but they live an aimless "puppet existence" in "a hell of vulgarity and disillusionment." Their barbarous antics hide frustrated ambitions and a loss of self-respect; "irrepressible passions" drive them to torment one another...
...implied slap at Charles de Gaulle's disruptive tactics in Johnson's statement that "we, for our part, will never turn back to separated insecurity." But the President generously added that the U.S. welcomes "the new strength of our transatlantic allies" and sees "no contradiction between national self-respect and independent mutual reliance." As for relations with the Communist bloc, he urged the allies to "be alive to the new spirit of diversity that's now abroad in Eastern Europe" and to "be alert to any hope of stable settlement." But flexibility, he added, does not mean...
When a man buys a suit of clothes, he also buys self-respect. And if you think that a $50 suit looks like a $250 suit, then either you have poor eyesight or you wear $50 suits...