#belittle

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

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They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting. ↗

— Michael Jackson

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Most people have stereo vision, so why belittle that very, very important element of our existence? ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. ↗

— Ogden Nash

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The poor girl ws keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully. No doubt that letter was destined to lie in her box and lead to nothing. But none the less, I am certain that she would keep it all her life as a precious treasure, as her pride and justification, and now at such a minute she had thought of that letter and brought it with naive pride to raise herself in my eyes that I might see, that I, too, might think well of her. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors. ↗

— Brené Brown

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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Some people want to call me an Appalachian writer, even though I know some people use regional labels to belittle. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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