#assault

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#best #better #better job #care #defense

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#best #best way #energy #gardener #i

After this urgent protest against entering into battle at Gettysburg according to instructions - which protest is the first and only one I ever made during my entire military career - I ordered my line to advance and make the assault. ↗

— John B. Hood

#advance #after #against #assault #battle

The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault. ↗

— John P. Kennedy

#eager #every #hostility #indians #molest

Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE. ↗

— Emily Nagoski

#men #rape #safety #women #men

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#assaulting #been #career #context #e-mails

I'm the same guy at that podium preaching to the people on every single song. I'm not doing a dance for you on another song. It's all a direct assault. ↗

— Fred Durst

#assault #dance #direct #doing #every

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#away #cannot #down #force #him

Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns -- or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#gun-control #gun-laws #gun-owners #gun-violence #guns

How often do we hear from the local diocesan people—the bishop, the communications director, the victim assistance coordinator, and others—that this abuse is not restricted to clergy, but, rather, it is a societal problem? It does occur outside in the public realm. When was the last time you heard of a sex offender not being held accountable for his actions once caught? The Church treated the abuse as a sin only and nothing more. Out in society, sex offenders are not moved to another community quietly. “But protest that priests are 'no worse' than other groups or than men in general is a dire indictment of the profession. It is surprising that this attitude is championed by the Church authorities. Although the extent of the problem will continue to be debated, sexual abuse by Catholic priests is a fact. The reason why priests, publicly dedicated to celibate service, abuse is a question that cries out for explanation. Sexual activity of any adult with a minor is a criminal offense. By virtue of the requirement of celibacy, sexual activity with anyone is proscribed for priests. These factors have been constant and well-known by all Church authorities” (Sipe 227−228). ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#bishop #blame #catholic #celibacy #celibate