Victim Quotes - Page 12

• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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  No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

  Salma Hayek

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

  Patty Hearst

  Hurt, Feelings, Faces

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• New technologies will always demand and deserve careful navigation and difficult readjustments. But the weakening or de facto abolition of copyright will not merely roil the seas, it will drain them dry. Those who would pirate what you produce have developed an elaborate sophistry to convince you that they are your victim. They aren't. Fight back.

  Mark Helprin

  Fighting, Technology, Sea

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• When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Bullying, People, Firsts

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• I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

  James Hillman

  Race, Class, Prejudice

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. March 1998.

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• It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

  Aldous Huxley

  Cutting, Murder Victims, Two

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country, Fall, People

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• We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Past, Historical, Pawns

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• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  Patricia Ireland

  Numbers, Statistics, Blame

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• Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

  John Irving

  Writing, Stories, Casualties

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (Eighth Series)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1988.

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• Most of today's black convicts have come to understand that they are the most abused victims of an unrighteous order.

  George Jackson

  Order, Black, Today

  George Jackson (1970). “Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson”, Chicago Review Press

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• I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Giving, Doe

  "Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

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• Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Bullying, Thinking, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Hate, Mind

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1965). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963-1964”, p.669, Best Books on

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• I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Dust, Perfect, Survivor

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• Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Faces

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• The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Government, Color, People

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• Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Differences, Brutality

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• They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

  Ralph Lauren

  Beautiful, Fashion, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, People, Groups

  Keynote Address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 28 February 2009, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.

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• I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sorry, Thinking, Race

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• Obama just announced Americans don't consider themselves victims, or entitled. Actually, the vast majority of Obama supporters believe exactly that. They believe exactly that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Obama Supporters, Majority

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• You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!

  John Lydon

  Beautiful, Sorry, Persistence

  "This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  Wangari Maathai

  Water, Environmental, Degradation

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