Quotes About Strength

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

I feel like I'm the last rap superhero. I really do. I feel like everybody else, they seem to be a bit victimized, and I don't feel like that's me.

I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.

I have a penchant for playing characters that have been victimized repeatedly and still stood their ground and still remained unembittered.

Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.

It's important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can't be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.

What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Trauma creates one of four types of people: victims, rescuers, or perps - and if you're really lucky and really strong and very willing and brave, survivors.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

My strength needs no victims. My strength is my compassion.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way.

God bless and help all the victims and patriots of 9/11, from the families of Flight 93 passengers to those who were in the Pentagon and Twin Towers as well as others who have fought and presently fight the war on terror.

When I was 12 years old, my father was killed. I lost a loved one to violence. The pain was because I lost my father. It didn't matter that he was an officer... It shaped my life. If anything, it made me a strong advocate for the victims of violence.

I under no circumstances want to be seen as a victim. I have worked with victims of sexual violence and I don't have a candle to hold to the experiences of those victims.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.

We're all going to be victims of temptation at several points in our lives.

We do not invest in victims, we invest in survivors.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.

When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

I didn't tell people because I didn't want pity, and I was afraid I wouldn't get work. But others with MS need to know they are not alone. We don't have to be victims.