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• n  personal independence

• An impresario of powerful, conflicting emotions, Farrakhan orchestrates pride and rage, love and hate, raising his revival tent on the twin poles of black self-reliance and white .
• A new spirit of self-reliance is taking root among many Africans as they seize control of their destiny.
• In fact South Korea's yushin system was in many ways a reflection of North Korea's policy of juche (self-reliance).

• autonomy
• self-direction
• self-sufficiency

News & Articles

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• Afghan Forces Struggle as U.S. Weans Them Off Support
  A lesson in tough love from American military mentors is proving costly in lives and limbs as Afghan troops seek to demonstrate their self-reliance by the planned NATO withdrawal in 2014.
  June 18, 2013 - New York Times
• For Afghan Scouts, 'Be Prepared' takes on a new meaning
  Organizers of Afghanistan's nascent Scouting program say its emphasis on community service and self-reliance is sorely needed in a society scarred by decades of violence.
  June 14, 2013 - Stars and Stripes

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity,Obama said of Lincoln, another...
• John Kerry in Reuters
  Here's what's important -- not to be throwing the blame around, but to put America on the course to true energy independence and self-reliance and to begin to wean ourselves from our addiction to oil,Kerry said.