But the real point of the spinning was to teach appreciation for manual labor, restore self-respect lost to colonial subjugation and cultivate inner strength.
And yet one miracle of Semenya's story is that in a nation of little tolerance and where apartheid crushed self-respect, Semenya's achievements have brought her both.
She has started a foundation, TZone, to empower young women in dealing with issues of physicality and self-respect.
3 Tips To Build The Trait That Drives Business: Self-Respect Even if you don’t read anything else I’ve said in prior columns about the 7 Non-Negotiables, I hope you will read this column. Today I will talk about the trait that perhaps surpasses all others in driving the hard results of business success: self-respect.
June 6, 2013 - Forbes
Barack Obama in FOXNews Traveling down the road to self-respect my own white blood would never recede into mere abstraction,Obama wrote. "I was left to wonder what else I would be severing if I left my mother and my grandparents at some uncharted border."
Alton Brown in BusinessWeek We like the way the organization is run from a business standpoint,Brown said. "I'm very big on self-reliance -- moving people who are currently locked up in poverty to self-respect and using animals to do it."
Mort Zuckerman in New York Times Mr. Zuckerman argued that no one since Julius Rosenberg, executed for espionage in 1953, had "so damaged the image and self-respect of Jews."