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Quotes About Vulnerable

At my direction, the Department's Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those who are most vulnerable in our schools.
~ Betsy DeVos
Ideally, schools should be supportive environments for students. Unfortunately, zero-tolerance policies tend to funnel vulnerable students out of schools and into prisons, low-income jobs, and poverty.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Canadians have been very generous toward Haiti after the earthquake and, thanks to you, our most vulnerable people have received food, drinkable water, shelter, medical care and education. For that, we are extremely grateful.
~ Laurent Lamothe
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Making it harder for the most vulnerable voters to participate in the political process inevitably leads to policies and policymakers that do not represent the interests of all people.
~ Nina Turner
The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
~ Carl Levin
One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
~ C. K. Williams
Neofascism in the United States takes the form of big money, big banks, big corporations, tied to xenophobic scapegoating of the vulnerable, like Mexicans and Muslims and women and black folk, and militaristic policies abroad, with strongman, charismatic, autocratic personality, and that's what Donald Trump is.
~ Cornel West
We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.
~ Jan Egeland
In my view, there is nothing more vicious and outrageous than the abuse, exploitation and harm of the most vulnerable members of our society, and I firmly believe that our nation's laws and resources need to reflect the seriousness of these terrible crimes.
~ Bob Ney
Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.
~ Mary MacLane
I can't afford security. I can't afford a gated house. So, I feel a little vulnerable. I wish some laws would come into play.
~ Selma Blair
For me, comedy should have a certain amount of joy in it. It should be about attacking the powerful - the politicians, the Trumps, the blowhards - going after them. We shouldn't be attacking the vulnerable.
~ Craig Ferguson
I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
~ James McGreevey
It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.
~ Virgil Goode
I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.
~ Big Sean
I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
~ Michel Gondry
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.
~ Andrew Motion
The U.S. has many vulnerable targets around Iran, and its bases are within the range of the Guards' missiles. We have other capabilities as well, particularly when it comes to the support of Muslims for the Islamic republic.
~ John C. Stennis
Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.
~ Rebecca De Mornay
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
~ Rachel Cusk
It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.
~ Alexia Fast
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
~ Irwin Redlener
America has been hit by Allah at its most vulnerable point, destroying, thank God, its most prestigious buildings.
~ Osama bin Laden