Quotes About Abuse

But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father like mine, it was normal to chop off his daughters hair with sheep shears, and to beat her with a belt or a cane or tie her up in the stable all night with the cows.

Kalief Browder was arrested in 2010 at age sixteen for stealing a backpack and then held for three years without a trial on Rikers Island. During his time on Rikers, Kalief was beaten by both guards and inmates, and he spent an inconceivable two years in solitary confinement before his case was finally dismissed in 2013.

We must also consider the enormous social-class differences in addiction rates. That is, the farther down the social and economic scale a person is, the more likely the person is to become addicted to alcohol, drugs, or cigarettes, to be obese, or to be a victim or perpetrator of family or sexual abuse. How

The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because

The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

The human spirit is resilient and truth - no matter how long you abuse it and how long you try to crush it - will, as Dr. King would say, rise up again, and in the final analysis will prevail.

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.

There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.

If liberty is abused, get ready for an awkward result

burned off their mutual contempt by abusing the counter help. My

victims of sexual abuse during childhood often suffered from stunted growth. Disrupted psychological growth affected physical growth.

But before I left," Rider continued, "I learned enough to know that most often sexual abuse of children comes from inside the family, relatives or close friends. The boogey monsters who climb through the window and abduct are few and far between.

drugged a girl and raped her—

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

You have to realize, all these decisions are about power. Sexual harassment is about power, and so is the company's resistance to dealing with it.

Trance:Formation of America,) has also been buried by the mainstream media, although they have had little option but to at least run one story that tells us just how vast this network is. The headline was Massive Pedophile Ring Busted; 230 Kids Saved. It was about an Internet pedophile ring with up to 70,000 members. It was one of those subjects the legacy media simply could not avoid, and yet there is no serious follow-through.

Isocrates: "Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

Police officers who had just come from an emotionally fraught situation—a suicide, or a domestic abuse call in which a child was involved—were more likely to use excessive force. Maybe the problem wasn't as simple as a bad cop. Maybe it was the emotional state in which the cop had found himself.

a quote from the ancient orator Isocrates: "Democracy destroys itself because it abuses its right to freedom and equality. Because it teaches its citizens to consider audacity as a right, lawlessness as a freedom, abrasive speech as equality, and anarchy as progress.

we knew that in general the quality of treatment we received in the training class varied inversely with the desirability of the job held by the speaker. In this there was a lesson: To get the best job, you had to weather the most abuse.

Children are as badly mistreated in traditional Christian families as in any other. Conservative religious affiliation is "one of the greatest predictors of child abuse, more so than age, gender, social class, or size of residence.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.