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Humiliating Quotes

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

"The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas (May 23, 1908), later published in Eugene V. Debs "Debs, His Life, Writings and Speeches: With a Department of Appreciations", 1908.

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

"We Like Lists Because We Don't Want to Die". Interview with Susanne Beyer and Lothar Gorris, www.spiegel.de. November 11, 2009.

Segregation is not humiliating but a benefit...

Defending the re-segregation of federal offices, in Conference with members of the National Association for Equal Rights, November 1914.

It's so damned humiliating.

Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.305, e-artnow

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

"Sarah Silverman: Playing The Dummy For Laughs". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2010.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

Jeanette Winterson (2011). “The Passion”, p.147, Random House

It's humiliating to have to explain your value.

"Producer Roundtable: 6 Filmmakers on 'Compton' Threats, Tarantino Outbursts and the Truth Behind a 'Star Wars' 'Firing'". Interview with Stephen Galloway and Matthew Belloni, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 11, 2015.