#victim

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power. ↗

— Fernando Flores

#changed #communication #heart #how #i

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#abuse #also #attention #believe #best

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#civil #civil rights #i #rights #victim

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#refuse #victim

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#behalf #crime #demand #direct #forgiveness

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#disarm #gun #gun laws #laws #mercy

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#apt #become #make #men #them

Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ↗

— Freda Adler

#becomes #crime #only #victim #which

Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. ↗