Quotes About Resilience

I've never seen myself as a victim because of my physicality. If I did play that game, I wouldn't be the comedian that I am.

Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.

I dont want to be a victim, nor be portrayed as one.

I am fighting because of my innocence. I am fighting because I am a victim. I am not a doper.

Blacks have experienced a history of victimization in America, beginning obviously in slavery and then another 100 years of segregation. I grew up in segregation. I know very well what it was about and all of the difficulties it placed on black life, and how we were truly held down before the civil-rights movement.

I believe that truth is one of the most powerful tools we possess against victimization, exploitation, and fear.

I hate the victimization of women, always.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don't feel like that's me.

I used to listen to Judy Garland all the time - I love Judy Garland and her music. But I started to realize that if you keep singing like that, singing songs of being victimized by love over and over and over again, it can't help but have a profound effect on your life.

I've been victimized by general filthiness on multiple occasions... I received a nasty staph infection... I was told to wait it out... a few days later I literally thought I was going to die... I ended up being on antibiotics for five weeks and, as a result, I had to back out of the fight against Machida.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

Clearly, 9/11 would have to be some of the best work that I've done because I was working without a template, and that was very difficult. Having nearly been victimized by the north tower, it was difficult to remain composed and be informative.

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.

I have been politically victimized.

Because like so many people who were victimized directly or indirectly by crime, I blamed myself. If I hadn't been able to find closure, I never would have overcome those early developmental challenges.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.

Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.