“Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall I use what I know, and how shall I avoid being victim of what I know? Life is not repetition.” KnowsUseTodayLife IsStruggleVictimYesterdayRepetitionEverlastingSouvenirs Book:The Art Spirit Source: The Art Spirit
“Capitalism places every man in competition with his fellows for a share of the available wealth. A few people accumulate big piles, but most do not. The sense of community falls victim to this struggle.” PeopleMenBigsFallCommunityWealthStruggleShareCapitalismFellowsVictimCompetitionAvailableEvery Man Book:Sixty stories Source: Sixty stories
“As we try to change, we will discover within us a fierce struggle between our loyalty to that battle-scarred victim of his own childhood, our father, and the father we want to be. We must meet our childhood father at close range: get to know him, learn to forgive him, and somehow, go beyond him.” KnowsWantTryingChildrenFatherStruggleChildhoodStyleIdentityBattleOur ChildrenVictimForgivingLoyaltyRangeFierceOur FatherLearn To ForgiveParenting Styles Author:Augustus Napier
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.” HumansWellsMayDoeHas BeensRealPoliticalSufferingFoundPoliticsVoiceExistenceStruggleNormalRelationAbsolutesVictimIllnessMental IllnessHopelessSymptomsNeuroticAbnormalHuman Voice Author:Aldous Huxley
“The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.” FoundStruggleTruth IsTestsOvercomingVictimAidsAcid Book:For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church Source: For My People: Black Theology and the Black Church
“There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights.” AbilityStruggleRightsTalentMediaDemandEqualVictimTreatmentEqual RightsParasitesPreferential Treatment Author:Thomas Sowell
“In referring to her earlier statement that he had was not her type because he was "a dollar short when it came to maturity and a day late when it came to peace." I may have been wrong about that," she conceded. "You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of the game to you, and you are delighted to play. In that regard, you may have reached a more elevated plateau of harmony than...ummph.” MenWorldWayMayHas BeensPlayHomeFoundGamesStruggleTypeLateHarmonyRegardVictimEmbraceDollarsChaosComplicatedStatementsConfusionMaturityDelightedReferringConceded Author:Tom Robbins
“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.” PeopleWayHumansMatterHardHandsSeemsLawSufferingValuesCausesEnjoyBlackCommunityBreakStruggleMaterialsHard WorkCostAuthorityNo Matter WhatVictimPressesRewardsGreedPossessionInsaneHuman LifeIndifferenceLoserGood LifeMaterial PossessionsBlack CommunityReversal Author:Huey Newton
“It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.” RealWinningMoralStruggleTaughtKingsVictimPartnersPartneringMoral Struggle Author:Maulana Karenga