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But this we know: Here is a great life that in every area of American politics gives the American people occasion for pride and that has invested the democratic process with the most decent qualities of honor, decency, and self-respect.
On the other hand, wifely supremacy demeans the husband, saps his self-respect, and robs him of his masculinity.
`` There is a limit to what the United States in self-respect can endure '', said the President.
Emerson evaded the problem by shoving it aside, or rather by leaving it behind him: he walked out of the Unitarian communion, so that it could lick the wound of his departure, preserve its self-respect and eventually accord him pious veneration.
Jewish ethical practice is typically understood to be marked by values such as justice, truth, peace, loving-kindness ( chesed ), compassion, humility, and self-respect.
From this point on he submitted himself, his whole existence, to his attachment to the person of the Führer, consciously eliminating all inhibitions springing from intellect, free will and self-respect.
But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.
As for the contradiction between German rearmament and his message of peace, Ribbentrop argued to whoever would listen that the German people had been “ humiliated ” by the Versailles treaty, that Germany wanted peace above all, and German violations of Versailles were part of an effort to restore Germany's " self-respect " By the 1930s, much of British opinion had been convinced that the treaty was monstrously unfair and unjust to Germany, so as a result, many in Britain like Thomas Jones were very open to Ribbentrop ’ s message that if only Versailles could be done away with, then European peace would be secured.
: " a lifestyle in harmony with nature, expressed through social nudity, and characterised by self-respect of people with different opinions and of the environment.
Nudism is the act of being naked, while naturism is a lifestyle which at various times embraced nature, environment, respect for others, self-respect, crafts, healthy eating, vegetarianism, teetotalism, non-smoking, yoga, physical exercise and pacifism as well as nudity.
" Thwaite argues that Edmund could only preserve his self-respect, in comparison to his father's superior abilities, by demolishing the latter's character.
Acquiring new skills gave many workers a sense of self-respect and confidence, heightening expectations and desires.
" Human weakness, spiritual strength, the deepest tenderness of affection, wounded feeling, sternness, irony, rebuke, impassioned self-vindication, humility, a just self-respect, zeal for the welfare of the weak and suffering, as well as for the progress of the church of Christ and for the spiritual advancement of its members, are all displayed in turn in the course of his appeal.
* He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.
Although it was not entirely reasonable that Canada should pay for any construction that the Canadian Government considered unnecessary or that did not conform to Canadian requirements, nevertheless considerations of self-respect and national sovereignty led the Canadian Government to suggest a new financial agreement.
Yet, Babbitt sublimates his desire for self-respect and does encourage his son to rebel against the conformity that results from bourgeois prosperity, by recommending that he be true to himself: “ Don ’ t be scared of the family.
The deeper meaning of the grook was that even if you lose your freedom (" losing one glove "), do not lose your patriotism and self-respect by collaborating with the Nazis (" throwing away the other "), because that sense of having betrayed your country will be more painful when freedom has been found again someday.
The slogan has been used by African Americans ( especially of sub-Saharan African origin ) to denote a feeling of self-confidence, self-respect, celebrating one's heritage, and being proud of one's personal worth.
" Wheeler declined with " Mr. Conkling, there is nothing in the gift of the State of New York which will compensate me for the forfeiture of my self-respect.
It is because he puts forth his dirty ironies as boldly as a bandit ... Tsuji himself is very shy and timid in person ... but his clarity and self-respect exposes the falsities of the famous in the literary world ... to many he really comes across as an anarchistic rogue ...
Synonyms or near-synonyms of self-esteem include: self-worth, self-regard, self-respect, and self-integrity.
According to Branden, self-esteem is the sum of self-confidence ( a feeling of personal capacity ) and self-respect ( a feeling of personal worth ).
As Freud put it, the depressive has suffered ' an extraordinary diminution in his self-regard, an impoverishment of his ego on a grand scale .... He has lost his self-respect '.
He described two different forms of esteem: the need for respect from others and the need for self-respect, or inner self-esteem.
I am a Jew because I feel the pulse of Jewish history ; because I should like to do all I can to assure the real, not spurious, security and self-respect of the Jews.

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