"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world."

Abuse, Nation, World

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"The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world."

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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it."

Crystal Woods, American Poet

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"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."

Carol Bellamy, American Educator

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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."

Zora Neale Hurston, American Dramatist

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"Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US."

Elizabeth Wurtzel, American Writer

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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."

Ed Markey, American Politician

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"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security."

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"The parallels between 9/11 and Pearl Harbor are striking. In each instance there were warning signs before the attack, and in each instance our government failed to connect the dots."

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"The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system."

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"Justice deferred is justice denied."

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"We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children."

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