Is shame good or bad for society? Is it necessary? Shame is good for society because it pushed people to work harder to avoid ashamed and to prevent poverty, however, shame hurt, it can make a person feel humiliated and a person in denial. Shame is necessary, because it push a person to do better in their life in a healthy way. Shame hurts, it makes a person feel humiliated by others. “We know you don’t have a Daddy” (167). According to Dick Gregory, in that moment when those words came to reality, he felt ashamed and humiliated because everybody knows that he was not like them and he started to feel sorry for himself. “A Shamed person believed that she/he should not exist, that he/she is worthless, defective and an empty human being.”