Sentence examples for degrade us from inspiring English sources

We are free to call ourselves "easy," but that should not be used to degrade us.

But the words we use to describe our shock and pain can serve to degrade us further.

One Gandhi quote was: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness".

"Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw kaffir," he quotes him as saying.

They always try to degrade us".

Not only does each of these versions of the purpose theory have specific problems, but they all face this shared objection: if God assigned us a purpose, then God would degrade us and thereby undercut the possibility of us obtaining meaning from fulfilling the purpose (Baier 1957, 118 20; Murphy 1982, 14 15; Singer 1996, 29).

It is about a culture of routinely harassing and bad-mouthing powerless people, which ultimately degrades us all.

As the environmental activist Ben Heard tweeted earlier this week, "This thrash of insult against senior climate scientists for wanting all tools deployed is foul and degrades us all".

But if that's now going to happen at railway stations and on ordinary streets, delaying and degrading us without even a holiday at the end of it, should we not have a little chat first?

At a time of heightened awareness and receptivity regarding race and black culture, it felt like Larry Wilmore was saying: "You can keep degrading us, keep ignoring or killing us, keep pretending that conversations about race will get us where we need to get, but you cannot take this.

One chapter is a series of aphorisms, including these: "Suffering degrades us; pleasure corrupts us"; "Nothing is as perverse as freedom; those who have it can't stand it, and those who don't have it kill each other for it"; "There is only one strength: the strength of desperation"; "Sex is a source of bitterness.