Sentence examples for degrading us from inspiring English sources

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?

They will stop degrading us.

As a black woman, it is annoying and frustrating to have white women constantly degrading us in order to make themselves look "better" in comparison.

But really you are raping us, by degrading us with your words you perpetuate the idea that women are objects to be sexually controlled by men, which adds to problem of women being abused and raped by men, which makes the oppression epidemic never-ending.

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.

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".

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