As the black intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois later wrote, "Thus to a frail overburdened Yankee woman with a steadfast moral purpose we Americans, both black and white, owe our gratitude for the freedom and the union that exist today in these United States".
"For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in short supply, Angela Merkel is Time's Person of the Year".
Ruth is remembered for her vitality, moral conviction, steadfast devotion to Ernest and children; Susan Bloch, James Low, Doris Kamenetz; grandchildren Rebecca, Michael, Daniel, Jonathan, Sarah, Amanda.
What makes the Egyptian youth revolution so beautiful, wonderful, absorbing, hypnotizing and inspiring is that they did it with moral courage, steadfast determination and without resorting to violence even when violence was visited upon them by Mubarak's thugs.
Everything, their moral compass, principles, steadfast support, selflessness, decency and courage.
The key to their approach is a steadfast, unblinking emphasis on individual moral tales.
Because the rich diversity of these traditions notwithstanding, the centerpiece of the Passover story remains the same: a people yearning for freedom and steadfast in their commitment to moral principles and a belief in a better future, even in the face of enduring hardships, repression and persecution.
Integrity has been defined as "a steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code" [ 13].
Integrity is steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code, being unimpaired, sound, whole and undivided; completeness.
If the immensity of that achievement escapes us today, it's because the fundamental elements of Chekhov's writing — its clinical humanism, its keen compassion, its steadfast rejection of the narcissism of moral outrage and the sadism of moral fables — have become so familiar in the greatest of our literature that, like the air we breathe, they escape notice.
