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The principal thing children are taught by hearing these lullabies is respect. They are taught to respect certain things in life and certain people. By giving respect, they hope to gain self-respect and through self-respect, they gain the respect of others. Self-respect is one of the qualities my people stress and try to nurture, and one of the controls an Indian has as he grows up. Once you lose your self-respect, you just go down.
(Henry Old Coyote (20th century), U.S. educator and member of the Crow Tribe. Respect for Life, Edited by Sylvester M. Morey and Olivia L. Gilliam, ch. 4 (1975).)
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... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is easy for me to kill, that is because it is difficult for me to die.
(Albert Camus (1913-1960), French-Algerian novelist, dramatist, philosopher. Gallimard (1958). Caligula in Caligula, act 3, sc. 2, Plιiade (1962).)
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In respect it is in the fields, it pleaseth me well; but
in respect it is not in the court, it is tedious.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Touchstone, in As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2, l. 17-9.
On life in the forest of Arden as contrasted with life at court.)
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When children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect. When children are treated with acceptance, they develop self-acceptance; when they are cherished, they conclude that they deserve to be loved, and they develop self-esteem.
(Stephanie Martson (20th century), U.S. family therapist, author. The Magic of Encouragement, ch. 1 (1990).)
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When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies, you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.
(Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), U.S. president. Letter, July 22, 1779, to William Phillips. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 3, pp. 45-46, ed. Julian P. Boyd, et al. (1950).)
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If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.
(Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 4 (1929, rev. 1970).)
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I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Nominalist and Realist," Essays, Second Series (1844).)
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Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily independent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?
(Lucy Stone (1818-1893), U.S. suffragist. As quoted in The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, vol. 1, ch. 7, by Ida Husted Harper (1898).
In an 1854 letter to her friend and sister suffragist Susan B. Anthony, who had written that the abuse she was receiving for wearing a short-skirt-and-bloomer ensemble in the interest of comfort and dress reform, had become intolerable. Stone, too, and eventually all of the few feminists who had worn bloomers, abandoned them before long.)
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