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“The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces -- and voices.”

World Has Beens Faces Evil Names Voice Powerful Numbers Attention Share Century Mass Victim Monsters Graves Sheer Powerless Faceless

Book:Carrion Comfort

Source: Carrion Comfort

“Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.”

Thinking Made Ends Film Moral Century Directors Demand Treats Victim Excellence Mediums Propaganda 20th Century Spectators Manipulative

Author:Michael Haneke

“When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.”

Knows Feels Wish Bits Talking Century Victim Noses 18th Century

Author:James Fenton

“The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.”

Humans Death Century Dying Catholic Victim Cruelty Unborn Cemetery Human Cruelty

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.”

Men Way Years May Has Beens Book Running Science Race Half Century Twenties Victim Blow Ink Exploding Handicapped Gunpowder Printer Running Race

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.”

Black Century Victim Gray Plague Twentieth Century Black Death

Book:Island

Source: Island

“Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.”

People Want Should Ends Government Today America Past Century Racism Victim Myth Ruins Ashamed Latin Indigenous Twentieth Century Latin America Zoos

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today.”

Life Self Today Force Social Term Interest Half Century Cost Judgment Universal Victim Defense Justify Self Defense Aggressors Deadly Force

Author:Don Kates

“The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come across, in the 1690s. And they were victims of famine. Over that decade, 30000-50000 people were fleeing from that disaster. In terms of per capita loss, it was of the same order of magnitude as the Irish famine (of the 19th century).”

People Order Term Loss History Century Victim Majority Decades Disaster County Famine 19th Century Magnitude Fleeing 18th Century Scots Lineage Ulster

Author:Tom Devine

“Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. In the United States, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.”

Source: Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,