“From the onset, I saw victims on both ends of the gun. I will mourn my son's death for the rest of my life. Now, however, my grief has been transformed into a powerful commitment to change. Change is urgently needed in a society where children kill children.” ChildrenHas BeensEndsPowerfulGriefSawsSonNeededGunCommitmentVictimMy SonTransformedMourn Author:Azim Khamisa
“The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah...here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing.” IfsInspirationalMeanDoneReligiousResponsibilityAcceptingToo MuchSonPromiseEqualAll ThingsVictimOutcomesVillainHungOffspringBeing DoneRecoil Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.” LongGovernmentSinSonReadyTheoryGoes OnHolyVictimStealingGhostOppressionOfficialsDeceivingSecretaryMistressHoly GhostNephewExtortion Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION
“I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.” FeelsStillsDifferentProblemYoungFeltSonDaughterVictimSorryKillersNo ProblemSon And Daughter Author:Elie Wiesel
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.” WarFatherLosesSonHusbandVictimFeministPrimariesCombatVictims Of War Author:Hillary Clinton
“Fury is an entirely appropriate response to a system that sends young people to kill other young people in a war that never should have been waged. Yet the American Right is forever trying to pathologise anger as something menacing and abnormal, dismissing war opponents as hateful and, in the latest slur, "wild-eyed". This is much harder to do when victims of wars begin to speak for themselves: no one questions the wildness in the eyes of a mother or father who has just lost a son or daughter, or the fury of a soldier who knows that he is being asked to kill, and to die, needlessly.” PeopleKnowsShouldTryingHas BeensWarEyeYoungPoliticalMotherDiesFatherLostSpeakForeverSonDaughterShould HaveHarderVictimResponseSoldierOpponentsAppropriateFuryHatefulShould Have BeenAbnormalWildnessSlursVictims Of War Author:Naomi Klein
“Under patriarchy, no woman is safe to live her life, or to love, or to mother children. Under patriarchy, every woman is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's daughter is a victim, past, present, and future. Under patriarchy, every woman's son is her potential betrayer and also the inevitable rapist or exploiter of another woman.” ChildrenPastMotherSonSafeDaughterVictimFeministInevitablePatriarchyPast PresentPast Present And FutureAnother WomanMother Child Author:Andrea Dworkin
“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)
“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat. Women often have to flee from the only homes they have ever known. Women are often the refugees from conflict and sometimes, more frequently in today's warfare, victims. Women are often left with the responsibility, alone, of raising the children.” ChildrenWarSometimesHomeTodayFatherPoliticsLeftLosesResponsibilityKnownSonHusbandConflictVictimPrimariesCombatWarfareRefugeeVictims Of War Author:Hillary Clinton
“Once [a soul] is condemned by God, then God's friends agree in God's judgment and condemnation. For all eternity they will not have a kind thought for this wretch. Rather they will be satisfied to see him in the flames as a victim of God's justice. ("The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge . . ." Psalm 57:11) They will abhor him. A mother will look from paradise upon her own condemned son without being moved, as though she had never known him.” LooksKindSoulMotherJusticeKnownHellSonJudgmentEternityAgreeVictimMovedRevengeMythologySatisfiedFlamesParadiseRejoiceCondemnationPsalmsClaretKind Thoughts Author:Anthony Mary Claret
“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.” PeopleWorldInspirationalShouldHumansHeartChildrenLongWholeEarthPainSufferingEvilHeavenPovertyLonelinessCrySonMy HeartVictimBurdenWhole WorldPityHuman LifeEchoesHelplessOld PeopleFamineMockeryOppressorsAlleviate Book:Autobiography Source: Autobiography