“I was well on the way to forming my present attitude toward politics as it is practiced in the United States; it is a beautiful fraud that has been imposed on the people for years, whose practitioners exchange gelded promises for the most valuable thing their victims own: their votes. And who benefits the most? The lawyers.” PeopleWayYearsWellsHas BeensStatesBeautifulUnitedAttitudeUnited StatesPromiseBenefitsVoteVictimValuableLawyerFraudValuable Things Author:Shirley Chisholm
“I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.” StatesTodayActionUnitedUnited StatesNeededOffersVictimSenateApologyFormalHeartfeltLynching Author:George Allen
“The United States is not nearly so concerned that its acts be kept secret from its intended victims as it is that the American people not know of them.” PeopleKnowsStatesUnitedSecretUnited StatesConcernedVictimKept Secrets Author:Ramsey Clark
“Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?” KnowsLittlesSaidStatesAgeNightSleepUnitedMillionsDarknessUnited StatesStreetsCitizensDemandVictimEmbraceAgentsInevitableTortureMarchOutrageResignationPerpetrators Author:Ariel Dorfman
“According to the CDC, more than one in three women and one in four men in the United States have been victims of domestic violence. It is a widespread public health problem, and every year 1,600 women and 700 men are killed by their intimate partners. One of the biggest risk factors that domestic violence will become fatal is the presence of a gun.” MenYearsHas BeensStatesProblemThreeUnitedUnited StatesFourViolenceRiskGunVictimPartnersFactorsIntimateDomestic ViolencePublic HealthHealth Problems Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.” YearsBookCountryStatesAmericaJusticeUnitedUnited StatesWrittenSeeingCrimeTreatsVictimPrisonWorkersFollowingCriminalsImmigrantsIllegalFarmsJustice SystemCriminal JusticeMigrantsIllegal ImmigrantsCriminal Justice System Author:Eric Schlosser
“At any rate, those problems [ non-proliferation regime for weapons of mass destruction ] would not be so acute, with numerous terror attacks and victims of those attacks in many areas of the world - in Europe and in the United States. We also never would have had such an urgent problem with refugees, I have no doubt about it.” WorldStatesProblemUnitedUnited StatesDoubtWeaponsMassEuropeAreasDestructionVictimRateTerrorNo DoubtRegimesRefugeeUrgentWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationTerror Attacks Author:Vladimir Putin
“Your kids have been taught that there is a more equivalence between Martin Luther King and today's Muslims - a moral equivalent between today's aggrieved gays and lessons and Muslims. They're all victims of an evil and ill-formed United States of America.” Has BeensStatesKidsTodayAmericaEvilUnitedMoralUnited StatesTaughtKingsLessonsGayVictimIllUnited States Of AmericaLuther Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.” PeopleHumansLooksStatesAmericaHuman BeingsUnitedUnited StatesGroupsLet MeVictimUnited States Of America Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.” WarStatesUnitedEnemyPovertyUnited StatesVictimSoldierTragicAntiwarEnding PovertyExtreme Poverty Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each of their screams was ours. When they were humiliated, we were humiliated. The U.S. soldiers fighting in Iraq - mostly volunteers in a poverty draft from small towns and poor urban neighborhoods - are victims just as much as the Iraqis of the same horrendous process, which asks them to die for a victory that will never be theirs.” ChildrenWarStatesDiesFightingAsksProcessPoorUnitedPovertyUnited StatesVictoryTownsOur ChildrenVictimSoldierIraqNeighborhoodPrisonerScreamAntiwarUrbanVolunteerSmall TownComradeHumiliatedAbu Ghraib Author:Arundhati Roy
“It was with horror that I learned of the abominable terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington in which so many innocent people have lost their lives. My government staunchly condemns these acts of terrorism. The German people are at the side of the United States of America in this difficult hour. I wish to express my deep-felt condolences and complete solidarity to you and the American people. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims and their families.” PeopleWorldStatesGovernmentAmericaLostWishFeltDifficultSidesHoursPrayerUnitedUnited StatesNew YorkHorrorVictimTradeTerrorismTerroristInnocentSeptemberSolidarityUnited States Of AmericaOur ThoughtsSeptember 11PentagonTerrorist AttacksCondolencesWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterSeptember 11 2001Thoughts And PrayersOur Thoughts And Prayers Author:Gerhard Schroder
“Shocked to learn of the serious attacks against certain areas in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, which caused horrendous casualty, I wish to express, on behalf of the Chinese Government and people, our deepest sympathy and solicitude to you and, through you, to the Government and people of the United States. I wish also to extend our condolences to the families of the victims. The Chinese Government has consistently condemned and rejected all forms of terrorist violence.” PeopleStatesGovernmentFormCertainWishUnitedCitiesUnited StatesViolenceNew YorkSeriousAreasVictimTerroristChineseNew York CityConsistentlySeptemberRejectedShockedBehalfSeptember 11CasualtiesCondolencesSolicitudeSeptember 11 2001Chinese GovernmentOur CondolencesDeepest Sympathy Author:Jiang Zemin
“Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim only if we adopt the convenient path of ignoring the record of its actions and those of its allies, which are, after all, hardly a secret.” IfsThinkingStatesActionUnitedSecretUnited StatesPathRecordsCrimeVictimInnocentJustifyAlliesSeptemberConvenientSeptember 11Innocent Victims Book:9-11 [neuf-onze] Source: 9-11 [neuf-onze]
“There are as many violent women as men, but there's a lot of money in hating men, particularly in the United States -- millions of dollars. It isn't a politically good idea to threaten the huge budgets for women's refuges by saying that some of the women who go into them aren't total victims.” MenIdeasStatesHateUnitedMillionsUnited StatesHugeVictimDollarsViolentBudgetsGood IdeasLots Of MoneyRefuge Author:Erin Pizzey
“I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.” BelieveLongStatesValuesOrderCultureI BelieveJusticeUnitedEffortResponsibilityUnited StatesSupportMilitaryDisciplineAuthorityAbuseAccountsRegardVictimBelieverImprovementResistanceCommandReceivingAssaultStampsImplicationsInconsistentSexual AssaultRestoringAmerican ValuesOverdueUnited States Military Author:Dave McGinnis
“Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims” LongStatesSufferingTermUnitedUnited StatesHorrorWeaponsTragedyVictimNuclearLong TermNuclear WeaponsMagnitude Author:Bernard Lown
“In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.” IfsWorldFirstsLongStatesAmericaYoungEvilLeftPresidentTermUnitedViewsRolesUnited StatesPolicyAbuseVictimTrainBarackGood And EvilAcademicForeign PolicyAggressionCasualNotablePredecessorsPostmodernAmerican Foreign Policy Author:Stephen F. Hayes
“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.” PeopleHumansLongDifferentMatterStatesEnoughMotherValuesHateUnitedUnited StatesGroupsAchieveRevolutionVictimOppressionRevolutionaryRebellionOppressedVersusAdoptedWombDroppingOppressorsDropping OutDifferent Values Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“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,