{"quotes":[{"text":"What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank. Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.” Notice anything? The worst thing you can call a girl is a girl. The worst thing you can call a guy is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up.","author":"Jessica Valenti","tags":["bullying","degradation","dehumanization","feminism","gender-roles","hate","insults","men","misogyny","women"],"id":16779,"author_id":"Jessica+Valenti"},{"text":"God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["animal-welfare","animals","animals-rights","aquatic","ity","ity-and-attitude","degradation","ecosystems","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-degradation","environmental-protection","god","god-s-grace","protection","rule"],"id":44564,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Leaving the world without keeping an heirloom is a degradation of the divine purpose.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["biography","born-to-win","death","degradation","divine","fulfilling-your-destiny","fulfilment","heirloom","purpose-driven-life","purpose-in-life","purpose-of-life","purposeful-living","remembrance"],"id":52659,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["degradation","opression","racism","slavery","white-people"],"id":58016,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"If a person refuses to develop his potential, it can lead to nervous or mental disorders, somatic diseases and personal degradation.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["degradation","disease","illness","people","potential"],"id":63066,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.","author":"Charles Dickens","tags":["degradation","horrible","horrid","politics","social"],"id":113510,"author_id":"Charles+Dickens"},{"text":"The gravel road widened into a large turnaround where three similar looking and designed brothels sat waiting for customers. They were called Sheila's Front Porch, Tawny's High Five Ranch and Miss Delilah's House of Holies.'Nice,' Rachel said as we surveyed the scene. 'why are these places always named after women -- as if women actually own them?'You got me. I guess Mister Dave's House of Holies wouldn't go over so well with the guys.'Rachel smiled.'You're right. I guess it's a shrewd move. Name a place of female degradation and slavery after a female and it doesn't sound so bad, does it? It's packaging.","author":"Michael Connelly","tags":["appearances","brothels","degradation","exploitation","marketing","prostitution","slavery","women"],"id":117190,"author_id":"Michael+Connelly"},{"text":"Today. The celebration is for the 'victorious', not the meritorious. The depiction to the youth, is that one can be victorious without merit, and that merit is less notable than victory. The result, is the masses are selectively and passively affirming that winning trumps hard work, that theft trumps the pride of ownership, and that personal success trumps collective progress.","author":"Justin Kyle McFarlane Beau","tags":["altruism","comparison","debased","degradation","depiction","depravity","falsehoods","falsity","merit","meritorious","mistaken","victorious","victory"],"id":140833,"author_id":"Justin+Kyle+McFarlane+Beau"},{"text":"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["degradation","poverty"],"id":154755,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abomination","atheism","belief","believer","bible","blasphemy","carnal-life","degradation","divine","divine-comedy","faith","fiction","holy","holy-book","michael-bassey-johnson","non-fiction","plaything","reckless","ridicule","sacred","sacrilege","sanctification","sanctify","serious","sin","trespass","unbelieve","unbeliever"],"id":161457,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}