“It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.” WorldYearsLongPastPracticeCrimeStrangeHundredMethodVictimAncientFoolishCrueltyPreservesWretchedness Book:The Story of My Life Source: The Story of My Life
“The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.” GivingRealReasonDoneViolenceHundredVictimTerrorTerrorismFavorsBillionsTerroristDamageExplosionsTerrorist AttacksIdiocyActs Of ViolenceMagnifyingSelf GivingDamage Is Done Author:Cory Doctorow
“One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.” FactsAtheismHundredVictimPositive AtheismRemarkableWitchBurnedStanding OutWizardsWitchcraftScarce Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.” PeopleMenYearsHas BeensHandsAmericaTurnsBlackWhiteFourViolenceHundredVictimFollowingIgnorantBlack PeopleCheeksPreacherWhite ManBrutesGodlikeTurn The Other Cheek Author:Malcolm X
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?” LongBookEnoughFeelingsLife IsReadingOughtThousandHundredVictimRefugeOppressedNew Books Book:Over the Teacups Source: Over the Teacups