“If we were going to address what involves the biggest number of women, reproductive freedom is a fundamental human right - like freedom of speech, the most basic right. Freedom from violence, since women worldwide are still like 70% at least of all victims of violence. Equality in the family, democracy in the family, since the family is the microcosm of everything else, so if you have inequality and violence in the family, it normalizes it in the street, for foreign policy, for every place else.” IfsHumansStillsNumbersDemocracyViolenceStreetsPolicySpeechVictimFundamentalsInequalityAddressesForeign PolicyFreedom Of SpeechMicrocosm Author:Gloria Steinem
“Sixty years of Western nations excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom in the Middle East did nothing to make us safe because in the long run stability cannot be purchased at the expense of liberty. ... The global wave of democracy has barely reached the Arab states. For too long, many people in that region have been victims and subjects. They deserve to be active citizens.” PeopleYearsLongHas BeensStatesRunningNationsLibertyDemocracyMiddleSubjectsCitizensSafeDeserveVictimWesternWaveActiveEastRegionsExpensesStabilityMiddle EastLong RunsSixtyDemocracies Have Author:George W. Bush
“Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.” BelieveStillsEndsMomentsPoliticalUsedOrderI BelievePowerfulDemocracyMovementWindPhotographyWeaponsStandingVictimHistoricalActivismRadicalChampionPostmodernismMulticulturalPowerful WeaponsCultural Change Author:Carrie Mae Weems
“There is no "true Islam," just different interpretations. Since I brought up patriarchy, let me make one thing clear. I am not singling out men; I am addressing the issue of inequality of genders. A patriarchy does not only not accept the equality of the sexes, it also has a hard time understanding the principles of democracy and its essence. Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home. This is the culture we need to resist and fight.” MenMindDifferentHomeCultureFightingUnderstandingAcceptingDemocracyLet MeVictimIslamGenderInequalityHard TimesPatriarchy Author:Shirin Ebadi
“And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.” LooksHas BeensDreamEyeTodayAmericaSpeakDemocracyRepublicanVictimDemocratFruitEnjoyedHypocrisyNightmareAmerican DreamThrough The EyesAmericanism Author:Malcolm X
“No, I’m not an American. I’m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I’m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I’m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.” PeopleDreamBlackMillionsDemocracyStandingVictimHypocrisyNightmareBlack PeopleFlagsAmerican DreamPatriotAmericanism Author:Malcolm X
“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.” LittlesGovernmentFormPoetryHopeDemocracyDestructionVictimAdmireSarcasmSarcasticEffectivenessForms Of GovernmentAdmiringComplicity Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.” PeopleHas BeensSelfFreedomDemocracyStupidVictimDeceptionDeceitSelf Deception Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war is being waged to make the world safe for democracy. What humbug! What rot! What false pretense! These... tyrants, these red-handed robbers and murderers, the "patriots," while the men who have the courage to stand face to face with them, speak the truth, and fight for their exploited victims - they are [called] the disloyalists and traitors. If this be true, I want to take my place side by side with the traitors in this fight.” IfsMenWorldWantWarWould BeFacesFightingSpeakSidesDemocracyHe ManSafeRedClaimsVictimBeing TrueTyrantsAntiwarSolitaryPatriotMurdererFace To FacePretenseSpeak The TruthTraitorRobbersArchesAristocraticHumbugConspirators Author:Eugene V. Debs
“Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.” StatesBehindsDemocracyVictimUnionsSerpent Book:The re-conquest of Ireland Source: The re-conquest of Ireland
“The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.” WorldMindWellsIndividualEasyFreedomCommonDemocracyStudyAwarenessConscienceVictimSakeIndividualityFlightIndividualismAgain And AgainConfusing Author:Joost Meerloo
“Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on a merry-go-round, going from one agency to another, until they wear out and give up. this is a very effective way to beat down poor and oppressed people, who do not have the time to prosecute their cases. Time is money to poor people. To go to Sacramento means loss of a day's pay - often a loss of job. If this is a democracy, obviously it is a bourgeois democracy limited to the middle and upper classes. Only they can afford to participate in it.” PeopleIfsWayGivingMeanDoneJobsLossPoorPayClassCasesDemocracyMiddleSonGiving UpBeatsPoliceVictimInstitutionsRoundsAgencyOppressedPoor PeopleMerryBourgeoisUpper ClassTime Is MoneySacramentoMerry Go RoundJob Loss Book:Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice. This is American democracy and those of you who are familiar with it know that in America democracy is hypocrisy. Now, if I’m wrong, put me in jail; but if you can’t prove that democracy is not hypocrisy, then don’t put your hands on me.” IfsKnowsHandsAmericaJusticeDemocracyProveVictimCriminalsFamiliarHypocrisyJailAttackingAmerican DemocracyAmerican Justice Author:Malcolm X
“I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south.” IfsKnowsWellsLongEnoughBlackBornTalkingMillionsDemocracyRepublicanVictimDemocratSouthBordersWhat IfJailAmericanism Author:Malcolm X