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Quotes About Victims

January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month, a time to recognize that this evil affects communities all over the world, including here in Nevada.
~ Jacky Rosen
We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.
~ Du Yun
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
~ Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel
The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford.
~ Charlton Laird
victims of sexual abuse during childhood often suffered from stunted growth. Disrupted psychological growth affected physical growth.
~ Michael Connelly
He taught Bosch early on that in society all victims are not created equal, but to the true detective they must be.
~ Michael Connelly
Pathological evil in humans is characterized by feelings of personal impotence and weakness which is stimulated by helpless victims
~ Michael Newton
But for the most part, the press went about its business of blaming the victims, glorifying the police, and demonizing those who fought back.
~ Michael Parenti
What we do know of Stalin's purges is that many victims were Communist party officials, managers, military officers, and other strategically situated individuals whom the dictator saw fit to incarcerate or liquidate. In addition, whole catagories of people whom Stalin considered of unreliable loyalty—Cossacks, Crimean Tarters, and ethnic Germans—were selected for internal deportation
~ Michael Parenti
Look, if you draw a two thousand-mile-long line across the United States at any angle, it's going to pass through nine murder victims.
~ Bill Bryson
Now the best thinking is that the appendix serves as a reservoir for gut bacteria. About one person in every sixteen in the developed world will suffer appendicitis at some point, enough to make it the most common cause of emergency surgery. Without surgery, many appendicitis victims would die.
~ Bill Bryson
Two of the victims died. Mary fled but was recaptured and spent the remaining twenty-three years of her life under house arrest on North Brother Island in the East River until her death in 1938. She was personally responsible for at least fifty-three cases of typhoid and three confirmed deaths, but possibly many more. The particular tragedy of it is that she could have spared her unfortunate victims if she had just washed her hands before handling food.
~ Bill Bryson
Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth
~ Billy Corgan
In Vietnam today there is a My Lai Museum. Hersh visited it in early 2015 for The New Yorker and noted the names and ages of the victims listed on a marble plaque. The count of the dead is no longer in dispute: a total of 504 people from 247 families; 24 families lost everyone—three generations, no survivors. Included in the 504 were 60 elderly men, and 282 women (17 of whom were pregnant). A total of 173 children were killed; 53 were infants.
~ Bob Woodward
Then there were those media figures who actually tried to put a happy face on Muslim extremism and Sharia law under the banner of cultural diversity. Surely the victims of honor killings, and those beaten and killed for not wearing headscarves, for dating men from outside their faith, or for trying to convert to another religion would strongly disagree.
~ Brad Thor
Sans unité, les peuples d'Afrique n'ont pas de futur, sauf comme perpétuelles et faibles victimes de l'impérialisme et de l'exploitation
~ Julius Nyerere
War, like politics, was men's work, and women were supposed to be among its victims, not its perpetrators. Women's loyalty was assumed, regarded as a prime attribute of femininity itself
~ Karen Abbott
PC advocates appear to defend the absurd because they see history as a series of unprosecuted crimes that can only be redeemed if we are appropriately sensitive to the legacy of the victims.
~ Francis J. Beckwith
Indeed, what was remarkable about this scheme wasn't Ponzi. It was his victims. If people really would believe that a 34-year-old ex-bank clerk who had just served three years in prison for check kiting was capable of doubling their money in six months by exchanging millions of 10 cent postal coupons from Europe – well, if they would believe that, then they would believe anything.
~ Frank Partnoy
Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.
~ Franklin P. Adams
The vision of Van Helsing as a vampire is one before which my imagination balks; this is doubtless only a shortcoming on my part; he may have been well fitted for the role, since as we have seen he had already the power, by means of speech, to cast his victims into a stupor.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Si chiamano così. Per esteso: Yersinia pestis. Qualità: bacillo pestigeno. Professione: historical killer. Numero di vittime: parecchie decine di milioni. Movente: castigo.
~ Fred Vargas
la passione amorosa separa terribilmente le sue vittime da tutti, tranne che dall'oggetto amoroso
~ Henry James
Are we not all victims of fear and anxiety precisely because we lack faith and trust in one another?
~ Henry Miller