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It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought. – Amanda Starbuck	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was so nice to hear someone reflect American values in a hopeful, positive – it wasn’t really demeaning of anybody, he spoke of positive principles and values, and didn’t get into personalities and demeaning. – Bob Kopp	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We think that trans people should not have to go through a process that can be demeaning, intrusive, distressing and stressful in order to be legally recognized in their lived gender. – The Scottish government	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It is clear to me that the workplace in Washington was unprofessional and unacceptable in numerous respects. Bullying, widespread disrespect toward colleagues, use of demeaning language, public embarrassment, and harassment. Moreover, for a prolonged period of time, the commanders had a woefully deficient H.R. function, particularly with respect to reporting practices and record-keeping. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It was so demeaning that in the moment I just didn't know how to react to it. I felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer. – Keith Pool	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Black Americans, because of slavery, don't know what country in Africa they came from, and that's a very demeaning experience for a child. – Nikole Hannah-Jones	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Robotics has very good potential to make people's lives more meaningful, by letting them not do the' five Ds' : degrading, demeaning, dirty, dangerous or driving tasks. – Marcelo Ang	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Black Lives Matter, of course, but so do all other human lives. Posting ‘BLM’ signs and disallowing ‘All Lives Matter’ signs is political speech or viewpoint discrimination, discriminating against or demeaning any race is not neutral and is wrong. – Bob Cajune	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
And he [Mathews] not only used one of the most demeaning terms you can give to a black person, he said it with no hesitation, but he also said it once the police officer came and cursed at the police officer. – The Mount Laurel Police Department	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This young man had every opportunity to get up and leave the room at any time, the identified coaches engaged in actions that constituted inappropriate, demeaning and divisive behavior in a misguided attempt to instill discipline into student-athletes. – Peter Pattakos	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The investigation found that the identified coaches engaged in actions that constituted inappropriate, demeaning, and divisive behavior in a misguided attempt to instill discipline in the student-athletes, this behavior will not be tolerated and further disciplinary measures for staff, which have not yet been determined, will follow. – Superintendent Jeff Talbert	Found on CNN 3 years ago
After that, I was offered the part of another whore and I said no because I didn’t want to get typecast and because it was demeaning to Black women. – Cicely Tyson	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Oftentimes the perpetrator is unaware that they have engaged in demeaning or offensive comments, so you have to make that visible to them. – Derald Wing Sue	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We view these photos taken of people deprived of their liberty in the prisons with great concern, they are scenes where people are brought together in prison yards in a humiliating, demeaning manner. – Erika Guevara	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The way you should get the guns out of the kids hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them, the way he feels about people is so demeaning. The policy may have been stop and frisk, but the philosophy was to castigate and denigrate people of color, and its a disgrace. – Mayor Bloomberg	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again, the president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He's demeaning me and my career. It's sickening. – Lisa Page for doing that	Found on CNN 5 years ago
This came as a shock to all of us, it's bad and demeaning, how can a Member of Parliament be attacked inside the precincts of the house, it's sad that male Members of Parliament are threatened by our presence, they are thinking we are taking their territories and they are not ready to accommodate powerful women leaders coming up. Instead of being scared they should all do their job of service delivery like we do, not hit women. No. – Kenyan MP Fatuma Gedi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
For me, it goes back to faith and values, hof has a profession making money out of young women who sell their bodies for sexual favors. It's demeaning to women. I can't wrap my brain around supporting someone who does that. – Paul Goulet	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Not just the hundreds, but now thousands of instances in schools across America, where children are citing the president as they’re demeaning a little girl, or they’re chanting ‘Build a wall’ in an attempt to demean and degrade brown children. – Chelsea Clinton	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It was uncomfortable, embarrassing and demeaning. All information we gave them was ignored, we were stunned when a supervisor told us [ the ]. – Miss Sahota	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They can’t beat us at the voting booths so they’re trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you won, they’re trying to cheat you out of the leadership you won, with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There is no place for this type of demeaning or degrading behavior in our Corps -- this includes our actions online, we need to be brutally honest with ourselves and each other. This behavior hurts fellow Marines, family members, and civilians. It is a direct attack on our ethos and legacy. – Ronald Green	Found on CNN 7 years ago
[Trump becoming president] worries the hell out of me because he's displayed this short fuse, if he doesn't like something he's going to yell or he's going to be belittle someone or he's going to make demeaning remarks to different races, to women, to whoever he's disagrees with. Imagine that scenario playing out around the world. – Michael Kelly	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The state’s refusal to recognize that they have two parents and to list both of us on the birth certificates is demeaning and hurtful. – Cathy Pareto	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought.

– Amanda Starbuck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was so nice to hear someone reflect American values in a hopeful, positive – it wasn’t really demeaning of anybody, he spoke of positive principles and values, and didn’t get into personalities and demeaning.

– Bob Kopp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We think that trans people should not have to go through a process that can be demeaning, intrusive, distressing and stressful in order to be legally recognized in their lived gender.

– The Scottish government

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It is clear to me that the workplace in Washington was unprofessional and unacceptable in numerous respects. Bullying, widespread disrespect toward colleagues, use of demeaning language, public embarrassment, and harassment. Moreover, for a prolonged period of time, the commanders had a woefully deficient H.R. function, particularly with respect to reporting practices and record-keeping.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was so demeaning that in the moment I just didn't know how to react to it. I felt like I'd been hit with a sledgehammer.

– Keith Pool

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Black Americans, because of slavery, don't know what country in Africa they came from, and that's a very demeaning experience for a child.

– Nikole Hannah-Jones

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Robotics has very good potential to make people's lives more meaningful, by letting them not do the' five Ds' : degrading, demeaning, dirty, dangerous or driving tasks.

– Marcelo Ang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Black Lives Matter, of course, but so do all other human lives. Posting ‘BLM’ signs and disallowing ‘All Lives Matter’ signs is political speech or viewpoint discrimination, discriminating against or demeaning any race is not neutral and is wrong.

– Bob Cajune

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

And he [Mathews] not only used one of the most demeaning terms you can give to a black person, he said it with no hesitation, but he also said it once the police officer came and cursed at the police officer.

– The Mount Laurel Police Department

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

This young man had every opportunity to get up and leave the room at any time, the identified coaches engaged in actions that constituted inappropriate, demeaning and divisive behavior in a misguided attempt to instill discipline into student-athletes.

– Peter Pattakos

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The investigation found that the identified coaches engaged in actions that constituted inappropriate, demeaning, and divisive behavior in a misguided attempt to instill discipline in the student-athletes, this behavior will not be tolerated and further disciplinary measures for staff, which have not yet been determined, will follow.

– Superintendent Jeff Talbert

Found on CNN
3 years ago

After that, I was offered the part of another whore and I said no because I didn’t want to get typecast and because it was demeaning to Black women.

– Cicely Tyson

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Oftentimes the perpetrator is unaware that they have engaged in demeaning or offensive comments, so you have to make that visible to them.

– Derald Wing Sue

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We view these photos taken of people deprived of their liberty in the prisons with great concern, they are scenes where people are brought together in prison yards in a humiliating, demeaning manner.

– Erika Guevara

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The way you should get the guns out of the kids hands is to throw them up against the wall and frisk them, the way he feels about people is so demeaning. The policy may have been stop and frisk, but the philosophy was to castigate and denigrate people of color, and its a disgrace.

– Mayor Bloomberg

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's like being punched in the gut. My heart drops to my stomach when I realize he has tweeted about me again, the president of the United States is calling me names to the entire world. He's demeaning me and my career. It's sickening.

– Lisa Page for doing that

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This came as a shock to all of us, it's bad and demeaning, how can a Member of Parliament be attacked inside the precincts of the house, it's sad that male Members of Parliament are threatened by our presence, they are thinking we are taking their territories and they are not ready to accommodate powerful women leaders coming up. Instead of being scared they should all do their job of service delivery like we do, not hit women. No.

– Kenyan MP Fatuma Gedi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For me, it goes back to faith and values, hof has a profession making money out of young women who sell their bodies for sexual favors. It's demeaning to women. I can't wrap my brain around supporting someone who does that.

– Paul Goulet

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Not just the hundreds, but now thousands of instances in schools across America, where children are citing the president as they’re demeaning a little girl, or they’re chanting ‘Build a wall’ in an attempt to demean and degrade brown children.

– Chelsea Clinton

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was uncomfortable, embarrassing and demeaning. All information we gave them was ignored, we were stunned when a supervisor told us [ the ].

– Miss Sahota

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They can’t beat us at the voting booths so they’re trying to cheat you out of the future and the future that you won, they’re trying to cheat you out of the leadership you won, with a fake story that is demeaning to all of us.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

There is no place for this type of demeaning or degrading behavior in our Corps -- this includes our actions online, we need to be brutally honest with ourselves and each other. This behavior hurts fellow Marines, family members, and civilians. It is a direct attack on our ethos and legacy.

– Ronald Green

Found on CNN
7 years ago

[Trump becoming president] worries the hell out of me because he's displayed this short fuse, if he doesn't like something he's going to yell or he's going to be belittle someone or he's going to make demeaning remarks to different races, to women, to whoever he's disagrees with. Imagine that scenario playing out around the world.

– Michael Kelly

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The state’s refusal to recognize that they have two parents and to list both of us on the birth certificates is demeaning and hurtful.

– Cathy Pareto

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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