"But it's a real profession, and there's a way to do it well, with self-respect".
Any man with self-respect can't take it, and I wouldn't want to marry the other kind".
With self-respect established, "it is easier to identify and change those features of thinking, feeling and behaving that are contrary to our values".
The hope is that the young men and women will become role models for black or Hispanic children, infusing them with self-respect.
She has the qualities Joan Didion ascribed to people with self-respect: "a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called character".
Fluency in some of these international languages, ALONGSIDE the systematic use of Kreyòl at all levels, can help Haitians benefit from, and also contribute to, the creation and transmission of knowledge, both locally and globally, with self-respect and dignity..
This is highly expensive compared with the cost of providing necessary benefits and support to help someone to continue to live with self-respect, as a contributing member of the community.
If the first half of his book concerns nursing homes and how we can age with self-respect, the second half concerns palliative care and how we can die with grace.
In my mind and conscience, it was a possible, permissible act of liberation from whatever humiliating bondage on earth could no longer be borne with self-respect, and our talk ended with the mutual declaration that if either of us ever killed ourself, the other was not to grieve but to remember that liberty could be as important in the act of dying as in the acts of living.
I replace self-doubt with self-respect and march on, blunting the fear of failure.
