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“The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.”

Mind Humans Age Sleep Half Known Doubt Disease Victim Instruments Chaos Average Ill Awake Sensations Human Mind Void Suggestions Compulsion Adjustment Unimaginable

Book:The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.”

Humans Long Running Turns Culture Victim Desperate Long Runs Human History Turn-on Oppressors Tainted

Book:A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

Source: A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

“You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.”

“What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball… I have no special corner in my heart for the ghetto: I am at home in the entire world, where there are clouds and birds and human tears.”

World Want Feels Humans Heart Play Home Body Pain Special Tears My Heart Empathy Bird Balls Victim Clouds Jew Corners Wretched Ghetto Rubber Plantations

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“Until we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world. There can be no double standard. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.”

“So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain.”

Men Humans Doe Pain Suffering Justice Sin Mark Victim Spread This Life Inherent Retribution Human Suffering

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. Augustus Waters did not die after a lengthy battle with cancer. He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim - as you will be - of the universe's need to make and unmake all that is possible.”

Needs Humans Dies Universe Water Consciousness Awareness Creation Battle Died Victim Cancer Devoted Human Consciousness Augustus Lengthy Augustus Waters

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light.”

Humans Light Evil Darkness Identity Planets Victim Blame Realization Unconsciousness Perpetrators True Power

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.”

Giving Humans Support Rights Hero Victim Human Rights Oppression Carter

Author:Jimmy Carter

“For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight.”

Ifs Should Humans Mean Art Human Beings One Thing Ready Sight Victim Endure Satisfaction Ugly Revenge Dissatisfied Tolerable

Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

Source: The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

“Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.”

“I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again.”

Humans Human Beings Violence Beats Victim Rapper Senseless Violence

Author:Tupac Shakur

“We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters.”

Humans Hands Speak Nations Justice Enemy Brother Diversity Weak Victim Social Justice Documents Brothers And Sisters Voiceless Breaking Silence Human Hands

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.”

Want Feels Humans Helping Justice Compassion Dignity Victim Injustice Cease Oppression Tire Restoration Human Dignity Injustice And Oppression

Author:Poul Hartling

“No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.”

Inspirational Humans Has Beens Humanity Society Victim Thrive Civilized Civilized Society

Book:Essays, lectures, addresses

Source: Essays, lectures, addresses

“Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. And after I've finished "shooting," my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.”

“There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.”

Humans Heart Desire Safety Victim Delight Bullying Human Heart Gratification Select Cowardly Propensity Outraged

Author:James T. Rapier

“Land mines, torture equipment, cluster bombs, chemical weapons are weapons designed to inflict pain and death on human beings. Most victims are civilians, women and children. How can arms manufacturers, weapons designers, plant managers, politicians, who have families of their own whom they love, be so insensitive when it comes to the suffering of other human beings?”

“As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses. An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life. Morality is never upheld by a legalized murder.”

Humans Law Mother Evil Justice Morality Husband Murder Died Victim Deeds Human Life Penalties Offense Death Penalty In-laws Assassination Redeemed Mother In Law Retaliation Stand Firm

Author:Coretta Scott King

“Our emotions may cry for vengeance in the wake of a horrible crime, but we know that killing the criminal will not undo the crime, will not prevent similar crimes by others, does not benefit the victim, destroys human life and brutalizes society. If we are to still violence, we must cherish life. Executions cheapen life.”

Ifs Knows Humans May Doe Stills Emotion Violence Crime Cry Benefits Victim Killing Criminals Horrible Human Life Cherish Execution Vengeance Death Penalty Life Death

Author:Ramsey Clark

“I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human rights issues. We are collective custodians of universal human rights standards, and any sense that we fall into camps of "accuser" and "accused" is absolutely corrosive of our joint purposes. The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode.”

“The reality is that no group of countries has any grounds for complacency about its own human rights performance and no group of countries does itself justice by automatically slipping into the "victim" mode . . . .”

Humans Doe Country Reality Justice Rights Groups Performances Victim Human Rights Complacency Slipping Custodians

Author:Kofi Annan

“The problem is that humans have victimized animals to such a degree that they are not even considered victims. They are not even considered at all. They are nothing. They don't count; they don't matter; they're commodities like TV sets and cell phones. We have actually turned animals into inanimate objects - sandwiches and shoes.”

Humans Matter Problem Animal Objects Tvs Degrees Victim Shoes Phones Cells Commodity Sandwiches Cell Phone Inanimate Objects

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.”

“Speciesism is a failure to empathize with those outside one's group. In general, speciesists simply disregard the myriad nonhumans whom humans intentionally hurt and kill. Who cares if millions of mice and rats are vivisected? They're 'only rodents'. What does it matter if billions of chickens live in misery until they die in pain and fear? They're 'just chickens'. They aren't human, so they don't count. Victimizers lack empathy for their victims, but absence of empathy doesn't justify victimization, whether the victims are human or nonhuman.”

“Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity.”

“Those in the community who defy authority and 'break the law' seem to enjoy the good life and have everything in the way of material possessions. On the other hand, people who work hard and struggle and suffer much are the victims of greed and indifference, losers. This insane reversal of values presses heavily on the Black community. The causes originate from outside and are imposed by a system that ruthlessly seeks its own rewards, no matter what the cost in wrecked human lives.”

“A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”

Humans Play Force Responsibility Moral Rights Abuse Victim Human Rights Moral Responsibility

Author:Lynn Nottage

“One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.”

“One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.”

Men Humans Made Reason Character Facts Home Social Existence Forever Findings Creating Organization Victim Monsters Tragic Convenience Human Existence Social Organization

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“First, the probable cause of AIDS has been found: a variant of a known human cancer virus. Second, not only has the agent been identified, but a new process has been developed to mass produce this virus. Thirdly, with the discovery of both the virus and this new process, we now have a blood test for AIDS. With a blood test, we can identify AIDS victims with essentially 100% certainty.”

Firsts Humans Has Beens Found Causes Process Known Blood Produce Mass Discovery Tests Victim Cancer Aids Agents Certainty Viruses Probable Cause Blood Tests New Processes

Author:Margaret Heckler

“Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.”

Humans Doe Christian Political Religious Forget Moral Violence Special Authority Worship Victim Obligation Prudence Human Society

Author:David Bentley Hart

“The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.”

Humans May Happens Happened Human Nature Horror Victim Jew Genocide Holocaust Norm World War 2 Perpetrators Bystanders Deviate Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Yehuda Bauer

“Millions of our fellow human beings continue to live as contemporary slaves, victims of abominable practices like human trafficking, forced labour and sexual exploitation. Countless children are forced to become soldiers, work in sweat shops or are sold by desperate families. Women are brutalized and traded like commodities. Entire households and villages labour under debt bondage.”

“It is up to each and every one of us to raise our voice against crimes that deprive countless victims of their liberty, dignity and human rights. We have to work together to realize the equal rights promised to all by the United Nations Charter. And we must collectively give meaning to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that "no one shall be held in slavery or servitude"”

“Horror itself is a bit of a bullied genre, the antagonist being literary snobbery and public misconception. And I think good horror tackles our darkest fears, whatever they may be. It takes us into the minds of the victims, explores the threats, disseminates fear, studies how it changes us. It pulls back the curtain on the ugly underbelly of society, tears away the masks the monsters wear out in the world, shows us the potential truth of the human condition. Horror is truth, unflinching and honest. Not everybody wants to see that, but good horror ensures that it's there to be seen.”

“Is slavery - owner, victim, profit, and domination - exclusive to the human race? Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity? Have not cows been enslaved? What about pigs, chickens, turkeys, fish, sheep? If they’re not enslaved, then what are they? Free?”

Ifs Humans Children Race Victim Slavery Fishes Profit Jew Human Race Owners Chickens Cows Sheep Pigs Domination Turkeys Exclusive Atrocities

Author:Gary Yourofsky

“The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.”

Ifs Humans Ideas Lying Process Human Beings Violence Murder Victim Witness Cycles Execution Continuing Closure Cycle Of Violence Murder Victims

Author:Steve Earle

“Human trafficking is a scourge, a crime against the whole of humanity. It is time to join forces and work together to free its victims and to eradicate this crime that affects all of us, from individual families to the worldwide community.”

Humans Whole Together Humanity Individual Force Community Crime Victim Working Together Human Trafficking Scourge Trafficking

Author:Pope Francis

“Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”

Ifs Men Humans Seems Life Is Laughing Comedy Capacity Tragedy Victim Miserable Comic Human Life Spectators Relish

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free the victims and stop this increasingly aggressive crime which threatens not only individuals but the basic values of society.”

Humans Values Humanity Individual Effort Crime Victim Aggressive Human Trafficking Trafficking Crimes Against Humanity

Author:Pope Francis

“Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.”

“The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.”

Humans War Helping Justice Issues Rights Commitment Red Crosses Victim Human Rights British Campaigns Turning Points Fundraising Nicaragua Red Cross

Author:Bianca Jagger

“Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.”

Source: Autobiography

“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,

“She believed, and was entitled to believe, I must say, that all human beings were evil by nature, whether tormentors or victims, or idle standers-by. They could only create meaningless tragedies, she said, since they weren't nearly intelligent enough to accomplish all the good they were meant to do.”

Believe Humans Said Enough Evil Human Beings Tragedy Intelligent Victim Accomplish Meaningless Mentor Entitled Idle

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you only cry out for Gaza, then you are not Pro Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.”

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