Quotes About Abuse

I remember reading the first Spotlight reports and just getting furious," recalled Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, the state's top prosecutor. "I found myself yelling out loud, 'My God, this is about children!

more than fifteen hundred priests sexually abused many thousands of minors who had been entrusted to their care.

For the investigative staff of the Globe, however, Law's 2001 court filing was a turning point: a story about a priest who was accused of molesting children was now a story about a bishop who protected that priest.

People expect the guy to be drooling, lurking around in a trench coat. But when I started doing these cases, it became obvious that most abusers are caretakers, respectable people who use that respectability as a cover to carry out their abuse.

If we can heal our wounded child, we will not only liberate ourselves, but we will also help liberate whoever has hurt or abused us. The abuser may also have been the victimg of abuse.

We constantly encounter themes that arouse sexual desire, often coupled with themes of violence. If our collective consciousness is filled with violent sexual seeds, why should we be surprised when there is sexual abuse of children, rape, and other violent acts?

I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

You kick a dog long enough, that dog is going to bite you or die.

A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

If he mistreated and abused his last girlfriend, why would you want to be his new girlfriend?

David and Raymond discussed their childhoods and Raymond said that after the twins left the farm, Domko occasionally beat him as well. They had a few long talks and were able to settle their differences. had a few long talks and settled their differences. They discussed their childhoods and Raymond admitted that Domko had occasionally beaten him as well.

If he were any other man, I might have suspected him of substance abuse, of being coked up or something. But Barrons was too much a purist for that; his drugs were money, power, and control

As long as adults make mistakes and as long as parents abuse, they will create new abusers.

because if a man rejects a woman, she goes home and cries for a few days. If a woman rejects a man, he can rape and kill her.

In an abused child's pure intent to make things right for everyone around him as he is growing up, he finds himself taking care of others at the expense of his own feelings and needs. Consequently, the child has no identity of his own. This is what is known as co-dependency.

Do you really not know that to praise a woman's mind is to abuse her? Is everyone not convinced that where there's cleverness there's no heart? Has it not been decided that a clever woman is a sort of monster who can feel nothing? Ask anyone, they'll all tell you so.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Conroy himself suffered cruelties and injustices throughout his life, from the time he was a child beaten by a violent and abusive father. The man who emerged from the crucible of chronic trauma was a warrior of words, determined to bear witness to the wrongs inflicted on the innocent and vulnerable by the corrupt and powerful.

When you've got a father who beats you, as a kid you think it's your fault. You develop a self-destructive belief that you're no good. The conflict Pat's always had is whether he's worth anything or worth nothing. MARION O'NEILL, Ph.D., ABPP, clinical psychologist

Just don't ever think you deserve to be beaten.

I can't really put it in one sentence because although on one hand Preacher is about faith and yes it is also about, I suppose, the search for God, the search for faith and the manipulation and the abuse committed by figures in whom I suppose people have faith.

As mentioned earlier, when Targets call for help, there is a good chance that much time has passed. Targets often wait too long to seek help, thinking the problems are their fault.