inhumanity
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"It's important to participate in these things and shine a light on injustice, shine a light on inhumanity, shine a light on suffering," DiDonato said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
As the foundation’s president, Elizabeth Alexander, puts it: “We support artists, scholars, and thinkers,” both inside and outside prison, “who are countering the inhumanity of incarceration and the broader criminal legal system.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 4, 2026
“I think the first family that I heard about where I recognized the cruelty and the inhumanity of it all was the Gonzalez family,” he said, referring to Quintino’s parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
It was a story of institutional inhumanity – which, at first, many found unbelievable.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
The death of these little children may lead our whole Southland from the low road of man’s inhumanity to man to the high road of peace and brotherhood.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
There are moments of tender resplendence that are as piercing as the cruelty — compassion that counterbalances the inhumanities Elwood faces.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
Fragmented senses of continuity and context have been powerful conditions to allow the multiple, ongoing crises and inhumanities we witness and experience every day.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2023
In one clip, Keith LaMar speaks about feeling victorious simply for having maintained his “sweetness” — a personal quality that’s obvious in his voice — despite the inhumanities of living in solitary confinement for decades.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
Like the inhumanities catalogued in contemporary prison-camp memoirs, run-of-the-mill Renaissance crimes tend to numb rather than fascinate.
From Time Magazine Archive
These barbarities and inhumanities were the portion of those who had been guilty of loyalty to their country, a social class distinguished by both their public and private virtues.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
