David Oyelowo

There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.

English Actor

Margaret Cho

My former bullies pay extra to come backstage and meet me after shows, and I pretend not to know them in front of their friends. It is the most divine pleasure to exact the revenge of the brutalized child that resides within.

American Comedian

Andre Dubus III

I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.

American Writer

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

I support strong sanctions and other penalties against those who aid violent extremists, brutalize their own people and have time and time again rejected calls to behave as responsible nations.

American Politician

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

One of the greatest things I fear is letting down my people. I wouldn't live with that type of conscience, of having let down my people after they've been brutalized for so long.

South African Activist

Thomas Friedman

I'm a capitalist. I believe in capitalism. But capitalism only works if you have safety nets to deal with people who are naturally left behind and brutalized by it.

American Journalist

Opal Tometi

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

American Activist

Larry Wilmore

The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

Hamid Karzai

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

Statesman

Maryanne Trump Barry

Thugs who brutalize elderly people should be punished severely.

American Judge

Use 'brutalize' to stress the extreme cruelty or harshness of the treatment received.

Severity Highlight

'Brutalize' implies an active effort to inflict suffering or hardship on others.

Active Harm

The word often describes situations worse than common neglect or mistreatment.

Intensity

Implies an exposure to an environment that turns someone violent or insensitive.

Corrupting Force

Can describe how continual violence affects groups, changing norms and behaviors.

Cultural Impact

Focuses on the erosion of compassionate traits, leading to a 'hardened' or 'numb' state.

Loss of Humanity

 decades of terrorism and violence and the lynching that we are trying to memorialize terrorize people of color in this community we've never talked about thousands of people pulled into the courthouse square sometimes brutalized burned alive the demographic geography of this nation was shaped by terrorism

The urgent need for...

 totally intolerable that we sit here in comfort and in pleasure and enjoying the life of the mind or whatever it is, and there are people who are absolutely riddled with disease and they cannot have a bite of food and they have no place, or they're being brutalized by some terrible person and so forth.

Bob Thurman: We can be...

 captive brutalized and exploited for profit it was a global story on an emotional issue that depended on being behind closed doors and it was accumulation of all my interests and all my passion and all my experience and it