Eric Schlosser

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers.

American Journalist

Tim Wise

Sadly, whites are rarely open to what black and brown folks have to say regarding their ongoing experiences with racist mistreatment. And we are especially reluctant to discuss what that mistreatment means for us as whites: namely that we end up with more and better opportunities as the flipside of discrimination.

American Activist

Goldlink

Sober Thoughts' is a song about an unhealthy relationship I was in with a girl, where we would continue to mistreat each other, to spite each other. We were bad for each other, yet we always came back together, because we thought we 'loved each other.' It was a young love, not a forever love.

American Rapper

Stacey Abrams

When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.

American Politician

Joyce Meyer

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don't give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

American Author

Luvvie Ajayi

I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it.

Nigerian Author

Alice Miller

The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves.

Swiss Psychologist

Melissa Leo

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

American Actress

Casey Affleck

I believe that any kind of mistreatment of anyone for any reason is unacceptable and abhorrent, and everyone deserves to be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else.

American Actor

Alexis Arguello

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.

Nicaraguan Athlete

Using 'mistreat' often implies cruelty and sparks negative feelings towards the perpetrator.

Negative Emotion

'Mistreat' suggests a serious degree of wrongdoing, not just a small mistake or error.

Strong Wrongdoing

When you say someone mistreats others, it often means that there could be legal or social consequences.

Consequence Awareness

Using 'mistreat' regarding resources or power often means that someone is betraying trust.

Trust Betrayal

It implies that someone is ignoring their responsibility to use something rightly.

Responsibility Ignored

'Mistreat' in the context of power usually refers to an abuse of power or authority.

Power Misuse

 Madame Zheng consolidated her power through strict military discipline combined with a surprisingly progressive code of laws. Female captives were theoretically protected from sexual assault, and while pirates could take them as wives, mistreatment or infidelity towards them was punishable by death.

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 wife-beating, gay-bashing ancestors? I'm sure everyone here could think of an example. I opt for the mistreatment of animals in factory farms. The imprisonment of nonviolent drug offenders and the toleration of rape in our nation's prisons. Scrimping on donations to life-saving charities

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 frontlines the life expectancy under fire was measured in a matter of minutes for every horse killed in battle three others died from exhaustion starvation exposure mistreatment and such widespread diseases as Glenda's and sore

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 solution to a very important part of this larger problem with the requisite focus on climate and the solution I offer is to the biggest culprit in this massive mistreatment of the earth by humankind and the resulting decline of

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 education and even oppression which is the mistreatment of others and scale these are all systems that were designed by people when I shifted my understanding of design from object making to systems building I began to

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 Her domestic dissatisfaction and her husband’s mistreatment of her are constant themes in her later poetry. After her death, he inherited her estate, and has been accused of excluding some of her work from publication.

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 their perceptions of their own mistreatment. So let’s walk through some of the most common signs of emotional abuse, to make these behaviors and patterns easier to spot in real life. First, the content of someone’s

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 ivory poaching in Africa, and mistreatment in captivity worldwide. Given what we now know about elephants and what they continue to teach us about animal intelligence, it is more important than ever to ensure

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 to a very important part of this larger problem, with the requisite focus on climate. And the solution I offer is to the biggest culprit in this massive mistreatment of the earth

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 We can improve how the system responds to their mistreatment. We can ramp up prevention, we can raise awareness, and we can do a better job protecting our own friends and family.

Mistreat

To treat someone or something very badly or unfair.

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To use something in a wrongful or inappropriate way.

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Negative Emotion

Strong Wrongdoing

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