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• I truly believe the American consumer doesn’t want to buy products made under abusive conditions.

  Phil Knight

  Believe, Want, Made

  "How Nike shed its sweatshop image to dominate the shoe industry" by Ashley Lutz, www.businessinsider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.

  Barbara Kruger

  Photography, Might, Objectifying

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The child welfare system - devised and run by liberal social workers, psychologists, and judges. . .Treats incompetent or abusive parents as its clients, and only secondarily considers the needs and well-being of the children involved.

  Mona Charen

  Running, Children, Judging

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• The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

  Kerry Washington

  Care, Able, Reason Why

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• There are abusive practices that have been used in connection with various mental attitudes or feelings. Over-medication in respect to depression is an example that comes to mind. The aversive therapies that have been used in connection with same-sex attraction have contained some serious abuses that have been recognized over time within the professions.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Sex, Attitude, Practice

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• One of the things we're all going to have to discover, establishment is just an abusive term for institutions. It's institutions that keep us free.

  David Frum

  Institutions, Establishment, Term

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Very few alcoholics get into a treatment program until they are at the end of the rope, often when they feel like they are about to lose something that is important to them, namely a wife or their family. The same is true with those who are physically and verbally abusive.

  Gary Chapman

  Wife, Important, Rope

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• I worked for 20 directors as a production designer, most male. I was on the set to witness firsthand a range of sometimes atrocious emotions - well-documented firings, yellings, fights between directors and actors, hookers, abusive things, budget overages, lack of preparation. A man gets a standing ovation for crying because he's so sensitive, but a woman is shamed.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Fighting, Men, Yelling

  "The Women of Hollywood Speak Out" by Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2015.

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• Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.

  Harry Reid

  Men

  "Reid Unapologetic for Linking Unemployment to Violence Against Women". www.foxnews.com. February 23, 2010.

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• I have never lost my temper. I let out my venom in my writing if I have to, but person-to-person, I have never lost my temper, never used abusive language.

  Khushwant Singh

  Writing, Language, Used

  Source: unforgettabletarun.blogspot.com

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• It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

  Rene Marie

  Our Society, Kind, Stranger

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I have no perspective as regards my work. One reason I put out records and books is people respond to it, and it enables you to actually see the work more clearly. It's a form of therapy for me. Sometimes abusive therapy.

  Moby

  Book, People, Perspective

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I was a young feminist in the '70s. Feminism saved my life. It gave me a life. But I saw how so much of what people were saying was not matching up with what they were doing. For example, we were talking about sister solidarity, and women were putting each other down. We were talking about standing up for our rights, and women weren't leaving abusive relationships with men. There were just so many disconnects.

  Eve Ensler

  Men, Rights, Talking

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• Without financial literacy, divorce rates soar, families rupture, and women stay with abusive men for financial security. A lack of jobs contributes to riots and illegal activity. Name any situation and it goes back to money. We need to focus on poverty eradication.

  John Hope Bryant

  Jobs, Divorce, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.

  Marie Calloway

  Girl, Sex, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The people who know God well - the mystics, the hermits, those who risk everything to find God - always meet a lover, not a dictator. God is never found to be an abusive father or a tyrannical mother, but always a lover who is more than we dared hope for. How different than the "account manager" that most people seem to worship. God is a lover who receives and forgives everything.

  Richard Rohr

  Mother, Father, People

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• Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

  Dov Davidoff

  Weather, Parent, Television

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Feb 03, 2012

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• The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.

  Willem Dafoe

  Crazy, People, Bully

  "Mr Bean's Holiday - Willem Dafoe interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I do have someone that I work with and she is amazing and I definitely don't have unmitigated abusive tendencies towards her. She is very sweet. I also know what that is like. I have heard my agent thinking he has hit mute on the phone before he, you know, physically unleashes broken glass and cellphones at his poor assistant. It is a tough job under the best of circumstances. I understand that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Sweet, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thoughtful, Important, Citizens

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• I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.

  Pam Grier

  Hate, Generations, Behavior

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.

  Pam Grier

  Girl, Healing, Boys

  "Actress Pam Grier". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 13, 2010.

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• Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Laughing, Return

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• The reason I gained so much weight in the first place and the reason I had such a sorry history of abusive relationships with men was I just needed approval so much. I needed everyone to like me, because I didn't like myself much.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Sorry, Men, Weight

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• People think that if [their abusive] parent apologizes, he'll turn into the person they needed him to be. He won't. An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

  Robin Quivers

  Apology, Thinking, People

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