You cannot really shame a man who sincerely does not care what others think of him.

An ignorant man who is regarded as knowledgeable by people who are more ignorant than him is still ignorant.

You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe; you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do.

Some disabled people spend a significant amount of their energy on trying to come across as abled or as not that disabled.

No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?

In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especially when the person who is putting us down is someone with whom we have a valued relationship or someone whom we perceive to have more power than we do...