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“If you're out there and need help, please seek it. Be proud of your valiant day-to-day struggle. There is no shame in needing support.”

Ifs Needs Helping Support Struggle Proud Please Shame Day To Day Be Proud Need Help Valiant Proud Of You Help With Depression

Author:Jared Padalecki

“Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.”

Needs Children Helping Kids Difficult Support Issues Abuse Shame Guilt Child Abuse Avoiding

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.”

Needs Country Body Happens Culture Girl Emotion Support Happened Speech Shame Crisis Guilt Humanitarian Fragile Assault Repression Counseling Shame And Guilt

Author:Natalie Dormer

“I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.”

People Want Wish Hours Support Media Internet News Shame Discourse Worldview Fragmented News Media

Author:Jim James

“Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?”

Art Country Matter Nations Support Pride Survival Understood Art Is Shame France Ireland Sweden Austria National Pride

Author:Theodore Bikel

“If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”

Ifs Way Real Light Process Support Path Becoming Shame Brave Lists Supposed To Be Vulnerability Daring Daring Greatly Becoming Real

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.”

Ifs Thinking Way Eye Support Rights Gay Equal Shame Good Times Grandchildren Equal Rights Gay Marriage Anticipate Bans Marriage Equality Against Gay Marriage

Author:Sean Penn

“The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.”

Way Country Support Shame Library Neglect

Author:Matthew Lesko

“As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence.”

“For over two weeks, the defenders of Wake Island held off a vastly superior force of Japanese ships and troops, inspiring the whole nation with their plucky spirit and sacrifice. Unfortunately, Navy leaders at Pearl Harbor, struggling to protect what was left of the shattered Pacific Fleet, canceled a relief mission, allowing the island and its defenders to fall without support. Wake damaged the long-standing trust between the Corps and the Navy, a memory that still rankles Marines and shames sailors.”