His views about the affirmative action cases that come before him are shaped quite clearly by what he regards as the self-sufficient dignity of his hard-working grandfather and the humiliation he says he felt when others believed his scholarly accomplishments were the result of affirmative action.
"Self-respect and dignity is worth more than that and we're not going to do it for the money, " he said.
Many international aid advocates have pushed for notions of self-sufficiency and dignity in economic development, and their cause is one that should be promoted here in the United States.
People should have the possibility to pay their taxes, to pay their obligations to others, to offer the basic goods to their family so they can feel that they live with self-respect and dignity.
Market-based mechanisms for social change are a welcome move toward dignity and self-sufficiency here at home and they bridge mainstream financial institutions with traditionally underserved markets in the United States.
Morgan Freeman brings a sublime dignity and self-mastery to the role of Mandela.
But before embracing that option, doctors and politicians should consider other ways to shore up the dignity and self-determination of the individual.
He also told the BBC's Hugh Sykes that he wanted "a relationship based on dignity and self-respect" between Pakistan and the United States and condemned the US use of military drones.
And the way we should do it--and this is part of what's wrong with what they're accusing me of by looking backwards to the '60s--is we ought to do it in a 21st century way that allow families to have independence, to be responsible, to have dignity and self-respect.
It was the blow to their dignity, their sense of self-worth.
Plato went on to point out that people are not only sensitive about their own self-worth, they are also sensitive about the dignity of their group, and the dignity of others.
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