"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."

Lucille Roybal Allard, American Politician

Abuse, America, Children, Country

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"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."

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"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Abuse, Power, Regret, Control, Hurt

"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."

Richard Cobden, British Businessman

Abuse,

"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

Abuse, Being, Conscience, Treatment

"The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I'm sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father's abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn't save me from a beating but simply earn her one as well. Or was it that sharing my fate made her feel less guilt-ridden about those things that happened to me?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Abuse, Regret, Truth, Power, Inspirational

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Abuse, Argument

"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

Abuse, Feeling, Want

"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

Abuse, Word

"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."

Arthur Murray, American Businessman

Abuse, Hell, Past, State

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

Marya Mannes, American Journalist

Abuse, Earth, End, Future

"Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee."

Michael McCaul, American Politician

Abuse, Committee, Congress, Exploitation

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"Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12."

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"With such compelling information, the question is why haven't we been able to do more to prevent the crisis of underage drinking? The answer is: the alcohol industry."

Alcohol, Crisis, Drinking, Information

"Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream."

Dream, Dreams, Americans, Festivities

"Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency."

Medical, Fire, Police, Service

"When approved, the SAFE Port Act will make progress toward protecting the physical infrastructure of our seaports as well as our national economy which is so clearly dependent on the commercial shipping business."

Business, Progress, Act, Economy

"I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence."

Fight, Security, Victims, Violence

"The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties."

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"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."

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"Mr. Speaker, our Nation must no longer be complacent about underage drinking and its alarming consequences. We must bring this national public health crisis out of the shadow and into the bright light of a national priority."

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"During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations."

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