And you learn determination: that it is important not just to survive, but to survive with dignity.
Less dramatic but more typical lives – people struggling to survive with dignity in difficult circumstances – receive little attention".
The dissident Czech playwright Vaclav Havel wrote an essay, "The Power of the Powerless," that became a kind of blueprint for how to survive with dignity in a totalitarian country, and later emerged as a champion of his country's Velvet Revolution.
In his note, he blamed "a collaborationist" government for cutting his pension, earned after 35 years of work as a pharmacist, to the extent that was no longer possible for him to survive with dignity.
If they feel the pain of poverty, illness or dislocation, to borrow from the title of Scott Youngstedt's recently published book about urban life in Niger, they are nonetheless Surviving With Dignity.
The strongest, like the flame-haired Grace Coddington, the magazine's longtime creative director and the documentary's hugely diverting stealth star, seem to have figured out how to survive with their dignity intact.
Like the others, this one hones in on the lives of people "trying to scratch out a living (and) survive with a little dignity".
In Lebanon, each woman struggles to survive, with nothing but her dignity.
This means that emergency preparedness and response, including early recovery activities, promote and protect the rights of children with disabilities, as well as their families, to survive and to live with dignity, while benefiting the population as a whole.
UNICEF is committed to strengthening disability-inclusive humanitarian action which means that emergency preparedness and response promote and protect the rights of children with disabilities, as well as their families, to survive and to live with dignity, while benefiting the population as a whole.
In a March profile, the New York Times magazine called him "the lone cabinet member to have survived with his status and dignity intact," and noted his commitment to maintaining the United States' traditional diplomatic alliances, which, as Mattis highlighted in his letter, Trump does not exactly share.
