Quotes About Victims

I knew from combat that casualties are the victims of a process, not of anger nor of hate or cruelty. And I believe that in the moment of acceptance, between winner and loser, between killer and killed, there is love.

Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.

The abuses by individual clergy in religious organizations are evil; the persistent cover ups by religious organizations, which empowered clergy pedophiles to get ever more victims, is worse; but the Roman Catholic hierarchy's lobbying against access to justice for all child sex abuse victims is about as cynical as it gets.

All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

The principle victims of British policies are Unpeople—those whose lives are deemed worthless, expendable in the pursuit of power and commercial gain. They are the modern equivalent of the 'savages' of colonial days, who could be mown down by British guns in virtual secrecy, or else in circumstances where the perpetrators were hailed as the upholders of civilisation.

5) No hay pruebas para apoyar el argumento de que estas víctimas, casi todas niños pequeños, fueran parte de un combate o hubieran sido atrapadas en un enfrentamiento de fuego cruzado. Por el contrario, las pruebas apoyan fuertemente la conclusión de que fueron víctimas intencionales de una ejecución masiva extrajudicial.

has now been reported that researcher David Rudiak was able to identify two key phrases: "the victims of the wreck" and "in the 'disk' they will ship."397

The suffering of the conquered and colonized people appears as a necessary sacrifice and the inevitable process of modernization. This logic has been applied from the conquest of America until the Gulf War, and its victims are as diverse as indigenous Americans and Iraqi Civilians. Enriqué Dussel, The Invention of the Americas

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Because our environmental factors are so often outside of our control, we may think there is not much we can do about them. We feel like victims of circumstance. Puppets of fate. I don't accept that. Fate is the hand of cards we've been dealt. Choice is how we play the hand.

The church acts most like Jesus when it protects the victimized.

We are easily seduced. It's magic lures us, and we are it's willing victims.

What Ireland shares with many societies around the world is a dangerous reality: once a group of people is isolated as being in some way inferior, the general population becomes less concerned with how they are treated, even in the face of evidence of cruelty and abuse. In Ireland's case, the thousands of victims of industrial schools bear witness to a society unwilling to question its own comfortable certainties out of a fear that those beliefs might turn out to have been built on sand.

Health and dignity are indissociable in human beings," he said at the ceremony. "It is a duty to stay close to victims and guarantee their rights." Urbani

To this day, mass graves of Stalin's victims continue to be uncovered in eastern Poland. As

He sees us not as pathetic victims of life, but masters of the art of living; not wanting sympathy, but imparting help to others

En la época colonial sucedió lo mismo. Los leones me recuerdan a los soldados del ejército portugués. Habíamos fantaseado tanto con esos portugueses que se volvieron poderosos. Los portugueses no tenían fuerza para ganarnos. Por eso, hicieron que sus víctimas se matasen a sí mismas. Y nosotros, negros, aprendimos a odiarnos a nosotros mismos.

In a study of great white shark behavior by George Burgess and Matthew Callahan using data from the International Shark Attack File, no other humans were within ten feet of the victim in 85 percent of the attacks.

The global economy is destroying the world; steal it all and then charge your victims for the service, abandon humanity and save the financial institutions.