Self-respecting
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having self-respect, having pride or knowledge of one's own worth.
Proud
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having a too high opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.Brave, valiant; gallant.Standing out or raised; swollen.Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the South.
Example sentence: This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.