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    The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it.
    in the book THE JUNGLE.

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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

by Seneca Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.
(on Book TV).

My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.
(on Book TV).

by Hilary Hemingway Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

by John Powell Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the read more

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

by Richard Whately Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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I haven't touched my brother in almost 18 years.
(in reference to cruel prison regulations in Mansfield Ohio
prison)
http://www.kennyisinnocent.org read more

I haven't touched my brother in almost 18 years.
(in reference to cruel prison regulations in Mansfield Ohio
prison)
http://www.kennyisinnocent.org
http://www.petitiononline.com/manci.

by Steven B Richey Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.

I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.

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We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when read more

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

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If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow
will have to come back countless times as
a lab rat read more

If there is justice with no mercy, Ira Flatow
will have to come back countless times as
a lab rat for all the cruelty he has promoted on NPR.

by Animal Rights Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, read more

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

by Jane Porter Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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