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«When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too»
Author: Bayard Rustin (Activist) | Keywords: brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, manifest, misuse, preposterous, redeem, social change, The Social
«How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.»
Author: Henry George | Keywords: barbarous, brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, criminals, drives, influences, poorer, reared, repress, repressing, vainly
«Throughout my life, I have seen narrow-shouldered men, without a single exception, committing innumerable stupid acts, brutalizing their fellows and perverting souls by all means. They call the motive for their actions fame.»
Author: Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont | Keywords: brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, by all means, committing, perverting, shouldered
«Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.»
Author: Margot Asquith | Keywords: brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, bull, Bull Fighting, demoralize, demoralizing, drawback, drawbacks, headlines, obsession, overrated, over here, public press, rape, rubbish
«All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.»
Author: William Bernbach | About: Media | Keywords: brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, high level, high society, lift, Mass, mass media, media, onto, professionally, shaper, shapers
«One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, committed, community, crime, crimes, Crime and Punishment, employment, habitual, infinitely, inflicted, not absolutely, occasional, occurrence, occurrences, punishment, punishments, sicken, sickened, sickening, sickens, wicked
«Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.»
Author: Thomas Paine (Writer) | Keywords: brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, consistent, corrupt, corrupting, cruel, debaucheries, debauchery, demon, executions, filled, History of, obscene, served, stories, The Demon, torturous, unrelenting, vindictiveness, voluptuous, wickedness, Word of God
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