“It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an ancient and barbarous world in our dealing with crime. So long as this is observed and exercised there can be no change except to heap more cruelties and more wretchedness upon those who are the victims of our foolish system.” WorldYearsLongPastPracticeCrimeStrangeHundredMethodVictimAncientFoolishCrueltyPreservesWretchedness Book:The Story of My Life Source: The Story of My Life
“The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.” GivingRealReasonDoneViolenceHundredVictimTerrorTerrorismFavorsBillionsTerroristDamageExplosionsTerrorist AttacksIdiocyActs Of ViolenceMagnifyingSelf GivingDamage Is Done Author:Cory Doctorow
“One remarkable fact stands out in the history of witchcraft; and that is, its victims were chiefly women. Scarce one wizard to a hundred witches was ever burned or tortured.” FactsAtheismHundredVictimPositive AtheismRemarkableWitchBurnedStanding OutWizardsWitchcraftScarce Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.” PeopleMenYearsHas BeensHandsAmericaTurnsBlackWhiteFourViolenceHundredVictimFollowingIgnorantBlack PeopleCheeksPreacherWhite ManBrutesGodlikeTurn The Other Cheek Author:Malcolm X
“What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?” LongBookEnoughFeelingsLife IsReadingOughtThousandHundredVictimRefugeOppressedNew Books Book:Over the Teacups Source: Over the Teacups
“Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.” DoeReasonEyeHumanityPiecesHundredVictimPrisonEndurePunishmentGuiltyRebellionGood SenseInfamyCrime And Punishment Book:Selected Letters Source: Selected Letters
“The racist conscience of America is such that murder does not register as murder really, unless the victim is white... blacks knew that white blood is the coin of freedom in a land where for four hundred years black blood has been shed unremarked and with impunity.” YearsDoeHas BeensAmericaBlackWhiteFourBloodLandHundredConscienceMurderVictimRacistShedCoinsRegisterImpunity Author:Eldridge Cleaver
“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.” HumansHas BeensStillsStatesLastsScienceThreeUnitedMillionsUnited StatesProgressCenturyBrokenHabitHundredConstitutionVictimSmokePoisonDemonSubtleSpellsAmendmentsLegislationAlcoholismTobaccoProhibitionHandicapsOpiumHuman ProgressIncenseRumTrios Book:Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills, Source: Tobaccoism;: Or, How Tobacco Kills,