"The black, who some admit will one day be our equal here, will already be found occupying the foremost and most honorable walks in society," one prospector wrote of Brazil in the Galveston Tri-Weekly News after scouting the country for plots.
In many societies, an honorable man would resign his position when it is obvious to most that he is ill-equipped to carry out the task at hand.
The question is, can such a decent, honorable man survive in a society where the rules are breaking down?
We have... made illegal some kinds of labor I'd like to see legal... We're creating a whole society of really honorable, decent, family-loving people who are in violation of the law..
They speak out, step up, march, and post signs; they struggle to find the right ways, the best, most effective, ways, to live against racism; to teach their children a different way, a more open-hearted, tolerant way to be honorable members of our diverse society.
"Honorable members, where in democratic societies is a person fined 1 million dollars for mere failure to register in order to exercise his freedom of expression?" Mr. Zvogbo asked in Parliament.
Part of his opposition to evolution may have stemmed from a genuine and honorable (if in this instance, misapplied) concern that it would undermine society's moral obligation to the weak and disadvantaged.
Lily, honorable but not always smart in her decisions, has so fallen from her perch in New York society that she is living in a boarding house, and so broke that she needs to work for a living.
And though the role of the novelist is not easy in our society and one must never disdain an author for making a living, I personally am too honorable to waste space on Tiffany rings.
The judge, the Honorable Clayton W. Horn Joycece would have also relished that — quoted Thomas Jefferson and concluded that the poem did not present a danger to society, and even had some redeeming social importance.
