No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.
What we have to do is go on the offensive. [The science on climate change] has been maligned and misinterpreted, and we need to fight back. . . [P]eople [need to] stop being moved by these talk show [hosts] and start looking for the facts themselves.
No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw into gold, conjuring the world of Ptolemaic Egypt in full vibrant color, and returning the voice of one of the most powerful, fascinating, and maligned women in history. Cleopatra is impossible to put down.
My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.
