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It’s just cruel. they can’t be applied in a medical situation. They just aren’t practical. – Molly Meegan	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Quite frankly, for me personally, it put me right back to the beginning, to see the justice system fail, then our hope for justice through our legal system failed. It failed to punish a cold, cruel, heinous and atrocious murderer to the fullest extent of the law. – Tony Montalto	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It shows Beijing is doing everything it can to punish human rights advocates and using cruel methods to crush China’s civil rights movement. – Teng Biao	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment. – Antony Blinken	Found on CNN 1 year ago
By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump. – Murad Awawdeh	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There's no doubt in my mind that this draconian 1901 law will have dire consequences on the health and well-being of Arizona Superior Court women and their families, this cruel law effectively outlaws abortion in Arizona — with no exceptions for rape or incest — and risks women's fundamental freedom to make their own health care decisions. ... To make matters worse, this law mandates jail time for abortion providers. Medical professionals will now be forced to think twice and call their lawyer before providing patients with oftentimes necessary, lifesaving care. – Katie Hobbs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
While Homeland Security and FEMA officials continue to work with Homeland Security and FEMA officials regional partners to manage the new migration challenge caused by failing authoritarian regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, Homeland Security and FEMA officials are also leading a comprehensive effort to support cities that are welcoming the people fleeing communism who Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott are using as political pawns, for instance, FEMA has personnel dedicated to supporting each city, expediting requests for reimbursement as they come in, mobilizing local service provider and non-profit support, and working with other federal agencies to identify additional resources. Homeland Security and FEMA officials will continue to do everything Homeland Security and FEMA officials can to support cities as Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis intentionally create chaos and confusion with Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott cruel political stunts. – White House	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What they are doing is an illegal stunt, is a political stunt. And it's really just disrespectful to humanity. It doesn't afford them any dignity, what they're doing when you are abandoning families and children in a place where they were told they were going to get housing, it is just cruel, and it's not about the process. Actually, It's about a political tool or political stunt that they're moving forward with. – Karine Jean-Pierre	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This idea of dumping these helpless people on buses and trucking them off to New York and Washington and Chicago is cruel and it's inhumane, it does not represent who we are as Americans. – Dick Durbin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Democrats are painting Republican Senate candidates in upcoming elections and midterms as cruel and out of touch, well, apparently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is content to leave them out to dry and fend for themselves. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Ms. Nancy Davis was put in a horrifically cruel position by the State of Louisiana, left with only two choices : To carry the fetus until its inevitable death or to travel to another state to end the pregnancy weeks after she made the incredibly painful decision to do so. – Ben Crump	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What matters most is that we are now collectively brave enough to reshape a tabloid industry that conditions people to be cruel, and profits from the lies and pain that they create. – Meghan Markle	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The Supreme Court has taken away the established, fundamental, constitutional right to abortion from millions of Americans. This is a cruel, dark and dangerous decision, what makes this decision so heartbreaking is that Americans had a clear and unequivocal constitutional right stripped away. – Linda Thomas-Greenfield	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Today’s decision dramatically escalates the stakes of the 2022 elections, and we’re making sure Americans have the tools they need to channel their anger into action, this on-the-ground organizing work will help elect Democrats who will fight to protect women’s right to make their own health care decisions and ensure the GOP’s cruel agenda to making abortion illegal and punish women is front and center for voters across the Senate battlegrounds. – Christie Roberts	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's a cruel existence for them, you have dogs that have to fight for food. You have people who try to hurt them. The temperatures are brutal. It's very different, so the survival rate is very low in general. – Robert Misseri	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker. – C.S. Lewis	added by unochickie 1 year ago
The UK's decision to go ahead with expulsions of asylum seekers to Rwanda Rwanda is an affront to its international obligations and quite simply cruel. – Lewis Mudge	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Humanism without the root of love will be a cruel world see worldly hypocrisy. – Merlin Figama Worshipper	added by legerfig 1 year ago
Or Biden's strategy — make Russia weak by sucking its military power on [the] Ukrainian battlefield, giving Javelins [anti-tank missiles] by small portions needed only to block further Russian attacks but not giving us chance to destroy Russian troops quickly. In this case, it's just too cynical and cruel, because this strategy costs hundreds of lives of Ukrainian citizens daily. – Volodymyr Solohub	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the governor's signing of this cruel, unconstitutional copycat legislation inspires anything, let it be rage and action, we will not sit idly by as Idahoans' right to abortion is stripped from them. We've said it before and we'll say it again : Planned Parenthood's doors remain open in Idaho, and we will continue fighting for patients and our communities. – Alexis McGill Johnson	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Such is the price of procrastination, calling for pressure on Russia to stop this cruel war. 117 children, thousands of adults. Thousands of people are injured. Tens of thousands of families devastated. Hundreds of thousands of destroyed destinies. Millions and millions of abandoned homes. And it all started with one man. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This was a cruel and heartless act of violence aimed at a child and is unacceptable in our society. – Drew DeVinney	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These kids should be having fun living out their childhood, enjoying trips to the amusement park, but the political bickering has made their life a cruel roller coaster. Roughly 4.5 million children under the age of 18 live in mixed-status homes, with one family member being undocumented. – Bernardo Castro	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It is shocking and sad that Joe Biden would champion cruel forms of child abuse such as genital mutilation through forced so-called sex-change operations and the prescription of dangerous puberty blockers, i will always defend the children of Texas from these inhumane procedures. – Ken Paxton	Found on FOX News 2 years ago

It’s just cruel. they can’t be applied in a medical situation. They just aren’t practical.

– Molly Meegan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Quite frankly, for me personally, it put me right back to the beginning, to see the justice system fail, then our hope for justice through our legal system failed. It failed to punish a cold, cruel, heinous and atrocious murderer to the fullest extent of the law.

– Tony Montalto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It shows Beijing is doing everything it can to punish human rights advocates and using cruel methods to crush China’s civil rights movement.

– Teng Biao

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Both officials were complicit in the mistreatment of inmates in their custody by security forces, including through rape, torture, or other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment.

– Antony Blinken

Found on CNN
1 year ago

By bending to the callous whims of Republican governors in Texas, Arizona and Florida as this country gears up for midterm elections, the Biden Administration has taken multiple steps backwards in time to the cruel immigration policies of Donald Trump.

– Murad Awawdeh

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There's no doubt in my mind that this draconian 1901 law will have dire consequences on the health and well-being of Arizona Superior Court women and their families, this cruel law effectively outlaws abortion in Arizona — with no exceptions for rape or incest — and risks women's fundamental freedom to make their own health care decisions. ... To make matters worse, this law mandates jail time for abortion providers. Medical professionals will now be forced to think twice and call their lawyer before providing patients with oftentimes necessary, lifesaving care.

– Katie Hobbs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While Homeland Security and FEMA officials continue to work with Homeland Security and FEMA officials regional partners to manage the new migration challenge caused by failing authoritarian regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba, Homeland Security and FEMA officials are also leading a comprehensive effort to support cities that are welcoming the people fleeing communism who Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott are using as political pawns, for instance, FEMA has personnel dedicated to supporting each city, expediting requests for reimbursement as they come in, mobilizing local service provider and non-profit support, and working with other federal agencies to identify additional resources. Homeland Security and FEMA officials will continue to do everything Homeland Security and FEMA officials can to support cities as Governor Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott and Governor DeSantis intentionally create chaos and confusion with Governor DeSantis and Governor Abbott cruel political stunts.

– White House

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What they are doing is an illegal stunt, is a political stunt. And it's really just disrespectful to humanity. It doesn't afford them any dignity, what they're doing when you are abandoning families and children in a place where they were told they were going to get housing, it is just cruel, and it's not about the process. Actually, It's about a political tool or political stunt that they're moving forward with.

– Karine Jean-Pierre

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This idea of dumping these helpless people on buses and trucking them off to New York and Washington and Chicago is cruel and it's inhumane, it does not represent who we are as Americans.

– Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democrats are painting Republican Senate candidates in upcoming elections and midterms as cruel and out of touch, well, apparently Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is content to leave them out to dry and fend for themselves.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Ms. Nancy Davis was put in a horrifically cruel position by the State of Louisiana, left with only two choices : To carry the fetus until its inevitable death or to travel to another state to end the pregnancy weeks after she made the incredibly painful decision to do so.

– Ben Crump

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What matters most is that we are now collectively brave enough to reshape a tabloid industry that conditions people to be cruel, and profits from the lies and pain that they create.

– Meghan Markle

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Supreme Court has taken away the established, fundamental, constitutional right to abortion from millions of Americans. This is a cruel, dark and dangerous decision, what makes this decision so heartbreaking is that Americans had a clear and unequivocal constitutional right stripped away.

– Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today’s decision dramatically escalates the stakes of the 2022 elections, and we’re making sure Americans have the tools they need to channel their anger into action, this on-the-ground organizing work will help elect Democrats who will fight to protect women’s right to make their own health care decisions and ensure the GOP’s cruel agenda to making abortion illegal and punish women is front and center for voters across the Senate battlegrounds.

– Christie Roberts

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's a cruel existence for them, you have dogs that have to fight for food. You have people who try to hurt them. The temperatures are brutal. It's very different, so the survival rate is very low in general.

– Robert Misseri

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

– C.S. Lewis

added by unochickie
1 year ago

The UK's decision to go ahead with expulsions of asylum seekers to Rwanda Rwanda is an affront to its international obligations and quite simply cruel.

– Lewis Mudge

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Humanism without the root of love will be a cruel world see worldly hypocrisy.

– Merlin Figama Worshipper

added by legerfig
1 year ago

Or Biden's strategy — make Russia weak by sucking its military power on [the] Ukrainian battlefield, giving Javelins [anti-tank missiles] by small portions needed only to block further Russian attacks but not giving us chance to destroy Russian troops quickly. In this case, it's just too cynical and cruel, because this strategy costs hundreds of lives of Ukrainian citizens daily.

– Volodymyr Solohub

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the governor's signing of this cruel, unconstitutional copycat legislation inspires anything, let it be rage and action, we will not sit idly by as Idahoans' right to abortion is stripped from them. We've said it before and we'll say it again : Planned Parenthood's doors remain open in Idaho, and we will continue fighting for patients and our communities.

– Alexis McGill Johnson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Such is the price of procrastination, calling for pressure on Russia to stop this cruel war. 117 children, thousands of adults. Thousands of people are injured. Tens of thousands of families devastated. Hundreds of thousands of destroyed destinies. Millions and millions of abandoned homes. And it all started with one man.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This was a cruel and heartless act of violence aimed at a child and is unacceptable in our society.

– Drew DeVinney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These kids should be having fun living out their childhood, enjoying trips to the amusement park, but the political bickering has made their life a cruel roller coaster. Roughly 4.5 million children under the age of 18 live in mixed-status homes, with one family member being undocumented.

– Bernardo Castro

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is shocking and sad that Joe Biden would champion cruel forms of child abuse such as genital mutilation through forced so-called sex-change operations and the prescription of dangerous puberty blockers, i will always defend the children of Texas from these inhumane procedures.

– Ken Paxton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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