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Quotes About Mistreatment

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
~ Chinua Achebe
Even the most absent minded Soldier will develope a memory like a elephant when mistreated.
~ Donavan Nelson Butler
The category of crimes against humanity was used in the 1945 Nuremberg Charter to ensure that the deportation of Germans by Germans to the concentration camps, and their subsequent mistreatment and extermination, could be prosecuted. Under the international laws of war at that time, the way in which a government treated its own nationals (no matter how heinous) was considered by international law as exclusively a matter of domestic jurisdiction, rather than an issue of international concern.
~ Andrew Clapham
Society chooses to disregard the mistreatment of children, judging it to be altogether normal because it is so commonplace.
~ Alice Miller
Contrary to popular evangelical belief, feeling anger is not a sin—you're allowed to feel angry. You should feel angry. Being outraged at mistreatment is normal and even good. How
~ Dianna Anderson
I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?
~ Angelina Jolie
You treated her like garbage and now you decide you want her back.
~ Jenny Han
I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam is a religion of peace. They are wrong.
~ Jermaine Jackson
They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.
~ Jerry Coleman
Circuses don't treat their 'performers' very well - whipping them, trying to make them terrified.
~ Borns
Reproaching his slave carpenters, he said, "There is not to be found so idle a set of rascals." Of a slave named Betty who worked as a spinner in the mansion, he complained that "a more lazy, deceitful and impudent hussy is not to be found in the United States.
~ Ron Chernow
Now look, for instance, at the way they serve dogs, cutting off their tails to make them look plucky, and shearing up their pretty little ears to a point to make them look sharp
~ Anna Sewell
We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.
~ Evan Wright
I was a bully in fifth and sixth grade. I wasn't one of the bullies - I wasn't strong or dominant enough to be one of the kids who bullied everyone in equal measure. I was a bully, in that I bullied a kid, whose name I won't mention here. My bullying was selective and personal.
~ Tom Junod
It is both the intention and the capability (love-food) that is necessary to sustain a small person in growth toward maturity. Parental mistreatment, that is, the absence of parental love, causes the child psychic pain. These traumatic episodes are later partially or totally repressed, but the scars of these early wounds play a significant part in the everyday life
~ Robert W. Firestone
If a man hits you once, he'll hit you again, they say. And the same is true for lying. But I stayed, and I listened and I believed. What a fool I've been!
~ Robin Hobb
Badly-treated children have a clear notion of what they are likely to get if they betray the secrets of a prison-house before they are clear of it.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The crucial significance of bonding has only recently been proved scientifically. One hopes that it will soon be taken into account in practice, not only in a few select maternity hospitals but in larger hospitals as well, so that everyone will benefit from it. A woman who has experienced bonding with her child will be in less danger of mistreating him and will be in a better position to protect him from mistreatment by the father and other caregivers, such as teachers and babysitters.
~ Alice Miller
I treated you so mean. Like you was a servant. And all because Albert married you. And I didn't even want him for a husband,' she say. 'I never really wanted Albert for a husband. But just to choose me, you know?
~ Alice Walker
Man has always mistreated what was important to him, for his love does not have a tender hand.
~ Romano Guardini
Robert has never been kind to his body; he's worn it like an old leather coat tossed in oceans and left crumpled in corners.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Looking back, it was the thing in his life that shamed him the most: the times he was purposefully, calculatingly mean to Alice. It was those moments, and there had been many of them, that indicated to him that he was not a good person. He got mad at her for many things, but it was always really for the same thing: that she possessed his love and he couldn't seem to get it back. She didn't deserve it, which was to say she deserved better
~ Ann Brashares
Un buhonero que cruzaba aquellas tierras errante, fue en Dauria acusado, preso y muerto en garrote infame.
~ Antonio Machado
I started Friends of Finn to raise money and awareness about the issue of puppy mills, which are illegal breeding facilities where animals are often bred to death and mistreated. It's a prevalent problem and a million dollar industry in the United States.
~ Amanda Hearst