Words similar to self-assertion

Example sentences for: self-assertion

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But it isn't as if he chose the lines of the anti-Semite at the expense of his own American impulse toward ethnic self-assertion.
Worse, they're selfish, rootless cosmopolitans--sorry, they're selfish "moral illuminati" pursuing their own vision of individual "authenticity," of "unbridled self-assertion," at the expense of family and group ties ("the intricately reciprocal character of a life lived within community").