“The landmine cannot tell the difference between a soldier or a civilian - a woman, a child, a grandmother going out to collect firewood to make the family meal... once peace is declared the landmine does not recognize that peace. The landmine is eternally prepared to take victims.” ChildrenDoeDifferencesVictimPreparedSoldierMealsGrandmotherGoing OutCiviliansLandminesFirewood Author:Jody Williams
“Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.” ChildrenParentViolenceVictimIllMentally Ill Author:Rich Lowry
“How many more tragedies does it take before we do something? How many more children have to die before this country realizes that No Gun Zones create perfect locations for violence? You can not stop criminals and mad men with laws, you can only stop violence with the fear of armed victims.” MenChildrenDoeCountryLawDiesRealizingPerfectViolenceGunTragedyVictimMadCriminalsZoneLocationCan NotMad Men Author:Alan Gottlieb
“Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.” PeopleChildrenSchoolDignityVictimScourgeMalaria Author:Youssou N'Dour
“Medicaid protects impoverished children, the frail elderly and people in crisis, .. Its limited resources will be further stretched serving hurricane victims. Proponents of Medicaid cuts either undervalue Medicaid assistance or underestimate American compassion.” PeopleChildrenCompassionCuttingProtectResourcesCrisisVictimServingUnderestimateAssistanceElderlyHurricanesFrailMedicaidLimited Resources Author:Sherrod Brown
“I've often wanted to play the victim, or somebody who makes terrible choices. I would love to play the alcoholic mother who horribly lets down her children. That's a great morally imperiled role.” ChildrenPlayWantedMotherChoicesRolesTerribleVictimAlcoholicsLet Down Author:Lucy Lawless
“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.” FirstsChildrenLittlesRealAliveDangerConsequenceVictimMedicineTerrorMedicalImaginaryFashionable Author:Maria Edgeworth