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“Kindness is not just the absence of being mean or hateful. Being kind entails actively resisting actions, ideas, and institutions that rob others of dignity.”

KindnessRespectDignitySocial JusticeHuman DignityInstitutional RacismInstitutional OppressionInstitutional Abuse
Book:In Defense of Kindness: Why It Matters, How It Changes Our Lives, and How It Can Save the World
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“When there is abuse by itself it's scary enough. When there is abuse within a religious setting it is so terrifying to people. Look how long its taken the Ryan report of 2009 took till then to talk about ritualistic kinds of abuse children in Ireland went through at the hands of nuns and priests, so nobody can bear it when its linked to religion, but when it's linked to religion that is not mainstream it seems to frighten people more. As if yes, abuse exists, Satanism exists, but you can't have Satanist abuse.”

Child AbuseRitual AbuseSatanic Ritual AbuseRitualistic AbuseSraCatholic Child AbuseReligious AbuseInstitutional AbuseSatanist Cabuse
Author:Valerie Sinason
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“The book argues that even though many cases have been held up as classic examples of modern American “witch hunts,” none of them fits that description. McMartin certainly comes close. But a careful examination of the evidence presented at trial demonstrates why, in my view, a reasonable juror could vote for conviction, as many did in this case. Other cases that have been painted as witch-hunts turn out to involve significant, even overwhelming, evidence of guilt. There are a few cases to the contrary, but even those are more complicated than the witch-hunt narrative allows. In short, there was not, by any reasonable measure, an epidemic of “witch hunts” in the 1980s. There were big mistakes made in how some cases were handled, particularly in the earliest years. But even in those years there were cases such as those of Frank Fuster and Kelly Michaels that, I believe, were based on substantial evidence but later unfairly maligned as having no evidentiary support.”

RealityMediaCrimeEvidenceAbuseCourtGuiltGuiltyWitnessNarrativeChild AbuseSexual AbuseJuryChild Sexual AbuseJudgeRitual AbuseSociety DenialEpidemicTrialSatanic Ritual AbuseNot GuiltyChild RapeWitch HuntDay CareSraDaycareInstitutional AbuseWitchhuntChild MolestersFalse AllegationFrank FusterJurorKelly MichaelsManiuplationMcmartinOverwhelming Evidence
Book:The Witch-Hunt Narrative: Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
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“There is a slave trade still in this country—yes, the real and horrific sex and human trafficking trade run by organised criminal gangs, which is appalling and must be stopped. But there's the hidden slavery too of children exploited and used within their own families, within organised and ritual abuse.”

AbuseChild Sexual AbuseIncestRitual AbuseHuman TraffickingSociety DenialChildhood AbuseTraffickingAbusive ParentsSex TraffickingOrganized AbuseDenial Of AbuseRitualistic AbuseSex SlaveHidden PainInstitutional AbuseSex SlaveryChild Sex RingChild Sexual ExploitationHidden AbuseRitualistic Child AbuseAbusive FamiliesRitualistic Sexual AbuseDebianSexual Explain
Book:Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
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“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of the soil prepared by the collective but blind will of a hundred million people. I beg you to recognize human life draped in a form and guise alien to ours, but springing from a soil plowed and sown by our own hands. I ask you to recognize laws and processes flowing from such a condition, understand them, seek to change them. If we do none of these, then we should not pretend horror or surprise when thwarted life expresses itself in fear and hate and crime.”

PrejudiceHuman RightsCivil RightsInstitutional OppressionInstitutional Abuse
Book:Native Son
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“Ils jouent avec votre vie entière comme avec leurs médicaments et vous font revenir une semaine, trois mois ou trois ans après votre maladie, pour une dépression, un suicide, pour un de ces troubles «indéfinissable» provoqués par leur première erreur. [They play with your whole life as they do with their medications, and make you come back a week, three months, or three years after your illness, for depression, attempted suicide, for one of those 'indefinable' problems caused by their initial failure.]”

AbuseMental HealthTraumaInstitutional Abuse
Book:Le Pavillon des enfants fous
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“Mais quel crime ai-je donc commis ? Ai-je tué quelqu'un et ensuite perdu la mémoire ? Ai-je tué, volé ? Non, j’ai fait un choix. Il ne les concerne pas, ce n’est pas eux qui en souffrent, je suis inoffensive. Je les déteste ceux qui disent que je leur fais du mal en me laissant mourir. Ils ne peuvent pas savoir, je ne leur dirai pas, d'ailleurs ils ne m'aiment plus, ce n'est pas ainsi qu'on aime.”

DepressionMental IllnessHospitalAnorexia NervosaInstitutional Abuse
Book:Le Pavillon des enfants fous
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