The tyranny we impose on others, we will eventually impose on ourselves.
It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.
Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.
They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.
Abuse is no argument against proper use
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
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.
It went on yesterday and it's going on tonight, somewhere there's somebody ain't treatin' somebody right.
That Mujib [Rahiman] had been arrested I found out at eight in the morning, when I left. How did I take it? I was glad he was alive and I thought they might have maltreated him a little. Then I thought that his arrest might help to reach a compromise. They wouldn't keep him in prison more than a month or two, and in the meantime we'd be able to bring back law and order.
It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.
