I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namel… — Roger Nash Baldwin

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

Roger Nash BaldwinActivist · American · 1884 – 1981

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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. — Abraham Lincoln
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. — Maya Angelou
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. — Orison Swett Marden
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