But today, he said, people with learning difficulties can easily lose self-respect.
I have spoken of losing my self-respect over the years.
You cannot lose your self-respect without bringing shame to me.
They say they have lost face and self-respect in their new country.
"I'd be losing my self-respect, and that's worth far more than what we're talking about."
Michael goes to pieces when Sally leaves, losing his job and self-respect.
A man who's lost his self-respect will try, like as not, to brazen it out, if he can, and so I did.
"As patients receive compromised care, I begin to lose my self-respect," she said.
"And no euphoria of revenge, or else we will lose our self-respect as democrats."
Criticism should never cause the recipient to lose face, inner dignity or self-respect.