Word: esteemed
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...last week that Tyrone Sinkler and his friend Ian Moore, 17, were shot to death in a corridor of their Brooklyn high school, New York City Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to lecture the students about self-esteem. The mayor would speak under a banner bearing some words of Martin Luther King Jr.: "The choice today is not between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence." It was a gun, of course, that dispatched Martin Luther King to nonexistence nearly 24 years...
...choice of self-esteem as a theme...
Faludi: Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grownup...
Steinem: I think some feminist books should be for women only. It happens that my book is appropriate for men and women both, because the full self necessary for self-esteem has been denied more to women -- but also to men. Self-esteem is a way of saying to men that equality will help you become whole...
Steinem: I would argue that masculinity limits a man's full range of human qualities, and so becomes a mask for a lack of self, shame, and low self- esteem...