Assault Quotes - Page 5

• Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

  Terry Gross

  Might

  "Reporting On Rape Kit Backlog Leads To New Law And Arrests In Ohio". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 19, 2015.

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• I've come to the conclusion that military style weapons really don't have any place in our society. We ought to reinstate the assault weapons ban that served us well for 10 years from 1994 to 2004.

  Mark Udall

  Military, Years, Assault Weapons

  "Udall comes out in favor of reinstating assault weapons ban" by Eli Stokols, kdvr.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Visits to crowded Indian urban centers unleash sensory assaults: colorful dress and lilting chatter provide a backdrop to every manner of commerce, from small shops to peddlers to beggars.

  Steven Rattner

  Dresses, Urban, Peddler

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• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  Karl Abraham

  Able, Instinct, Mania

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.137, Karnac Books

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• The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

  Robert James Waller

  War, Talking, Long

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• Assault weapons ban reintroduced.

  Barack Obama

  Assault Weapons, Bans, Weapons

  Second Presidential Debate, www.npr.org. October 16, 2012.

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• My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.

  Naomi Watts

  Years, Broken, Hollywood

  "Three Continents Later, An Outsider Actress Finds Her Place". Interview with Graham Fuller, November 2001.

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• Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

  Jessie Kahnweiler

  People, Broken, Eating Disorder

  "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Jessie Kahnweiler – ‘The Skinny’". Interview with Sian Melton, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards liberals, who speak in a very hypocritical language about caring for their interests and yet support institutions that carry out an assault against working men and women.

  Chris Hedges

  Caring, Men, Thinking

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.

  Sam Hamill

  Thinking, Speaks Out, People

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Basically, "Making a Murderer" chronicles a set of crimes committed in Wisconsin: Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The first crime is a miscarriage of justice. Steven Avery is convicted and sentenced to a very, very long prison sentence for the assault on a woman. And it comes to light through DNA evidence that he was not the assailant.

  Errol Morris

  Miscarriage, Light, Dna

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit First Amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.

  Mitt Romney

  Cheer, Children, Mexican

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.

  Babatunde Adebimpe

  Song, Thinking, Missing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If there's an article about sexual assault, if there's a video about feminism on YouTube, you're going to get the most horrible, disgusting comments ever. And sometimes the comments are pornographic, and sometimes the comments are really harassing. So I think that it's kind of a difficult place for women to write sometimes.

  Jessica Valenti

  Writing, Thinking, Feminism

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium in which assault flourishes.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sex, Boys

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• If a girl gets assaulted, it's not because she was drunk. It's because somebody decided to assault her.

  Jon Shenk

  Girl, Drunk, Decided

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Pregnancy, Divorce, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's crazy that Bill Cosby has a mugshot for alleged assaults 11 years ago with no physical evidence or proof besides these womens accounts of what he did to them an entire decade later.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Crazy, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

  Don DeLillo

  Perception, Borders, Firsts

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• ISIL videos, ISIL training videos are telling lone wolves the easiest way to cut by a combat assault weapon in America is at a gun show, because of the flip-flopping political approach of Washington.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Gun, Assault Weapons

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Bill Cosby was charged with sexual assault. No matter the outcome of this case this moment is an important public acknowledgement that even though many years have passed, there`s still the responsibility to take charges of sexual assault seriously.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Responsibility, Years, Important

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I`m a sexual assault survivor. I have long felt like Bill Cosby needed to be held accountable. But I keep wondering if this is a system that can bring that accountability.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Long, Accountability, Survivor

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are viewed as clients, academic fields are treated as economic domains for providing credentials, and work place skills, and academic freedom is under assault.

  Henry Giroux

  Academic Freedom, Skills, Fields

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social state, until recently, has been more incremental [i.e. the stripping of public services and so forth], whereas in Britain with the rise of the conservative-liberal government, it was immediate and bold in its assault on the social state and higher education.

  Henry Giroux

  Issues, Government, Conservative

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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