Word: self-respect
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...broods about his bad-conduct discharge, which does not become effective until his banishment is up and he returns to the U.S. He says, "I made a mistake, but I have tried to make up for it. I would like to go out of the army clean and with self-respect." If Kusadasi had a vote, Baldwin's honorable discharge would long since have been in his hand...
Prison chaplains agree that helping restore in prisoners their sense of humanity is a primary task. Most first offenders are crushed by their loss of freedom and self-respect and are bitter about the inequities of the law. "We are dealing with people who feel that there is no justice at all in meting out punishment," says Pastor Currens, chaplain at the Minnesota Women's Reformatory, and he tends to share the feeling. "If you steal an $18 dress, you can get 18 months in jail; but if you cheat for $100,000 on your income...
Madame Perkins, as she was known helped to draft countless bills, including the social Security Act, all providing laborers with a self-respect they had not had before. Spurring the President on, she fast came to embody the New Deal's reformist spirit. Even after her departure from government, she continued to challenge complacency, supporting the civil rights movement as vigorously as her age permitted. The humility and tenacity that marked her life give dignity to the cause for which she struggled...
...does an unemployed truck driver retrained as a welder gain in self-respect? Or does he merely find it easier to get higher paying but still mindless jobs? Asbell's theory jars with his facts. He envisions an Athenian society of proud, liberally-educated citizens; but the reality he tells us about is the reality of unemployed unskilled laborers going to night school and eventually getting employment as semiskilled laborers. He ignores the larger, noneconomic contexts of modern life--particularly the spiritual dilemma of the ordinary man dwarfed and drained by the mass industrial society that engulfs him. Teaching...
...massive infusion of dollars to solve Latin-American problems. "Man does not live by G.N.P. alone," he says. "After looking at the results of our foreign aid program around the world and seeing how few attitudes have been changed and how little it has to do with better government, self-respect and social change, I feel there are several missing ingredients." Among the ingredients Vaughn wants to increase: Peace Corps-type activities, people-to-people...