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"There is, however, an important aspect of respectful behavior that has gone virtually unnoticed in the literature: patience. Allowing others to complete personal autonomy and the right to experience the world in their own way requires an extraordinary amount of patience. ... It is the height of arrogance to try to "improve" people, and this includes any expectation that they will abandon their own nature and conform to your personal needs and desires. You simply cannot treat other people respectfully of you are attempting to impose on them your own personal agenda, timetable, beliefs, values, or goals. In the end, to behave respectfully towards other people means accepting them for who they are and having the patience to allow them to act upon and realize their own natures by themselves. ... Not only does patience allow you to treat other people respectfully, but it enables you to reflect on and come to accept your own nature. It is therefore also the foundation of self-respect." - Paul Nadasy on the subject of the Kluane people and respect from his book Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, Knowledge and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Southwest Yukon

"And as for me, I am going to continue to preach community ownership of wealth producing capital. Ownership and dignity for all men" - Etok aka Charles Edwardsen Jr

"Why is it that the Western civilization worries about things and does not worry about people?" - Etok aka Charles Edwardsen Jr


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