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After 200 years of unbridled abuse towards the first Australians, it was high time that we white folks said we were sorry.
I began my career working police abuse cases in the United States.
Having that criminal record makes it so much more difficult to leave poverty, leave abuse, or leave prostitution, if that person so desires.
We recognize that there are potential risks and potential for abuse, but personally, having spent many years doing this, I believe that the benefits to humanity from having emotionally intelligent technology far outweigh the potential for misuse.
Now whether you look at this and think, "Oh, that's a charming urban affectation," or you look at it and say, "That's illegal abuse of property," the one thing I think we can all agree on is that you cannot read it.
So our overall commitment at the Carter Center is to promote human rights, and knowing the world as I do, I can tell you without any equivocation that the number one abuse of human rights on Earth is, strangely, not addressed quite often, is the abuse of women and girls.
In the United States of America, for instance, we have had an enormous increase in abuse of poor people, mostly black people and minorities, by putting them in prison.
So the resort to violence and abuse of poor people and helpless people is another cause of the increase in abuse of women.
Another thing that's very serious about the abuse of women and girls is the lack of equal pay for equal work, as you know.
But anyway, those kinds of things, the resort to violence and the misinterpretation of the holy scriptures are what causes, are the basic causes, of abuse of women and girls.
The average man that might say, I'm against the abuse of women and girls quietly accepts the privileged position that we occupy, and this is very similar to what I knew when I was a child, when separate but equal had existed.
We have to stop giving up our position, because by remaining silent, we allow for the continued persecution and abuse of women worldwide.
Many Whitopians feel pushed by illegals, social welfare abuse, minorities, density, crowded schools.
To some I was Martin, a vacant shell, the vegetable, deserving of harsh words, dismissal and even abuse.
And regionally, I'm a co-creator of a division within the Department of Emergency Medicine here at Brown University, called Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine, and we conduct the research to determine the differences between men and women in emergent conditions, like heart disease and stroke and sepsis and substance abuse, but we also believe that education is paramount.
We know that if you text in the words "mg" and "rubber band," there's a 99 percent match for substance abuse.
Or "99 percent match for substance abuse, here are three drug clinics near the texter."
The worst time of day for substance abuse: 5am.
And I want families to see that substance abuse questions spike at 5am.
Another son, Ryan, is keeping up this constant stream of abuse from the kitchen, and the dogs are locked behind the bedroom door and straining.
The founding fathers knew that they did not want to establish another country that was ruled by a king, so the discussions were centered on having a strong and fair national government that protected individual freedoms and did not abuse its power.
That's who we are, but we've exercised it so much sometimes that it has led to abuse.
But in 1977, amidst revelations of brainwashing and abuse, Jones moved with several hundred followers to establish the commune of Jonestown in Guyana.
But when their practices involve harassment, threats, illegal activities, or abuse, the law can intervene.
Why are we spending 80 billion dollars on a prison industry that we know is failing, when we could take that money and reallocate it into education, into mental health treatment, into substance abuse treatment and to community investment so we can develop our neighborhoods?
Modern society has probably produced the highest rates of suicide and depression and anxiety and loneliness and child abuse ever in human history.
They might be a refugee or fleeing domestic abuse.
The solution is clearly to give workers more legal protections, allowing them to resist abuse and report it to authorities without fear of arrest.
And yes, it can often be the case that these people smugglers demand exorbitant fees, coerce migrants into work they don't want to do and abuse them when they're vulnerable.
You can be a drunk, you can be a survivor of abuse, you can be an ex-con, you can be a homeless person, you can lose all your money or your job or your husband or your wife, or the worst thing of all, a child.
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