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"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
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"When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe."
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"The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about."
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"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?"
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"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
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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."
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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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"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
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"The problem with depicting abusers as full-time monsters is that when a person is actually experiencing abuse in their own life, they'll think 'oh but he's the sweetest guy most of the time so he can't be an abuser ' or 'but he's not ALWAYS horrible, he's usually amazing, so he's not an abuser', and they'll make the mistake of thinking they mustn't really be being abused when they actually are."
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"To give a child animal products is a form of child abuse."
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"I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals."
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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."
Life
"What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation."
Nothing
"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
Power
"Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory."
Imagination
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
Democracy
"The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth."
Truth
"Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?"
History
"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
Habit
"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."
Persistence
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
Man
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