Victim Quotes - Page 5

• The idea that men 'lose control' around a woman in a short skirt is insulting to men, completely relieves perpetrators of responsibility, and erases and ignores male victims.

  Laura Bates

  Responsibility, Men, Ideas

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• Each one of us must ask how we contribute to the racist climate that seems only to grow stronger in spite of our best efforts at legislative and social remedies. Whether we are victims of racism or its perpetrators, we must begin on our knees.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Racism, Effort, Stronger

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• Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Noble, Motive, Humans

  "The Uncompromising Anti-Capitalism of Martin Luther King Jr." by Obery M. Hendricks, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2014.

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• I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

  Kevin Starr

  Stories, Bigs, My Own

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Finance ministers and central bank governors have the seats at the table, not labor unions or labor ministers. Finance ministers and central bank governors are linked to financial communities in their countries, so they push policies that reflect the viewpoints and interests of the financial community and barely hear the voices of those who are the first victims of dictated policies.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Country, Voice, Community

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were 75% of the executions. Now, African-Americans are 13% of the population, but they're still almost half of death row, and over a third of the executions. 34% of the executions are black folks. So, like, I mean, things like the race of the victim is one of the biggest determinants of who gets executed.

  Shane Claiborne

  Mean, Race, Lynching

  Source: medium.com

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• There are some  -  called 'death fatigue'  -  people who just grow so tired of death, so they don't want to keep perpetuating death and creating more victims and more anger and more pain. They want to heal from that, and I think that's exactly what God wants to do. And, interestingly enough, that's part of what God's original law was doing with the 'eye for an eye' thing. It was actually to limit the patterns of retaliation and then to begin to heal from that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Pain, Tired, Eye

  Source: medium.com

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• It's unilaterally true that it costs more to maintain the death penalty than the alternatives to it, and we can leverage more resources to victims families. We can do all sorts of creative ways of healing the pain that people have done by channeling the energy and resources to other more redemptive forms of justice.

  Shane Claiborne

  Pain, Healing, People

  Source: medium.com

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• I do not support child abuse. It's a disgusting crime of which I am a victim.

  Milo Yiannopoulos

  Children, Support, Abuse

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• Your kids have been taught that there is a more equivalence between Martin Luther King and today's Muslims - a moral equivalent between today's aggrieved gays and lessons and Muslims. They're all victims of an evil and ill-formed United States of America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kings, Kids, Gay

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• It's easy to be a victim. Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Party, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. When you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. When you're a victim, success is not possible. When you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Faults, Excuse

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Look at how many victim groups there are. And they all happen to be Democrat constituency groups. They all are on the protest march. They're all angry; they're all enraged.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Groups, Looks, March

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Being a victim is almost as easy as being a liberal. It's one of the most gutless choices you could make.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Choices, Easy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Being a victim doesn't take much. There are built-in excuses for failure. Built-in excuses for being miserable. Built-in excuses for being angry all the time. No reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. You're a victim. Victim of what? Well, you're a victim of derision. Well, you're a victim of America. You're a victim of America's past, or you're a victim of religion. You're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. You're a victim of something. The Democrats got one for you. If you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Past, America, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The people that choose to face life, the people that choose to embrace it, the people that choose to just soak it up, the people that choose to dive right in and test their limits and find out what they're capable of and how good they can be and if that's really what they want to do, victims are gonna hate them because they are showing what anybody could do if they just had an attitude adjustment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Attitude, Hate, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.

  Elie Wiesel

  Daughter, Sorry, Son

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It occurs to me that there's been a relatively recent tendency in the media to see prostitutes as victims and johns as exploiters. I don't think most prostitutes see themselves as victims or see their clients as exploiters, but that way of seeing prostitutes and johns is pretty common now outside of sex-work circles, and it's more shameful to be the exploiter than the exploited.

  Chester Brown

  Sex, Thinking, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Placing a halo around your own head by saying 'I am a pacifist' and 'I don't believe in using violent tactics' doesn't make the world a better place. It might make YOUR world better and YOU might feel better about YOURSELF, but it does NOTHING whatsoever for the victims.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Believe, Feel Better, Might

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree, that they aren't even considered victims. They aren't even considered at all. They're nothing. They don't count, they don't matter, they're commodities like TV sets and cellphones. We've actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes. It is the greatest magic trick ever performed.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Animal, Shoes, Magic

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• Realism as a foreign policy doctrine means basically you don't care about values; you consider them a luxury, and it leads to a kind of acquiescence in spheres of influence. Now, spheres of influence sound good if you're a graduate student, or a certain kind of - an academic with a certain habit of mind. But in fact, spheres of influence don't work out very well, certainly not for the victims, and there are always victims.

  Daniel Fried

  Mean, Luxury, Work Out

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.

  Arundhati Roy

  Darkness, Want, Disappear

  Source: progressive.org

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• The way racism works in Canada, it's very subtle. You may feel you're a victim of racism or have experienced racism, but you can't necessarily prove it - unless you get a [white] friend to go check out that rental, go check out that job, whatever. Unless you're willing to really dig to prove you're a victim of racism, it might be difficult to do that. And so what you're dealing with then is feeling, it's emotion.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Jobs, White, Racism

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Non-violence should be a tactic - not an ideology preached from the sidelines to victims of massive violence.

  Arundhati Roy

  Tactics, Violence, Should

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of "cleaning" people, of discarding people.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, People, Mexican

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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