#victims

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#degradation #environmental #families #fetch #firewood

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#across #barely #earth #flames #look

People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#hurts #paranoia #trust-issues #victims #anger

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#conflict #courage #first #fundamentalism #most

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#family #formidable #friends #friends and family #full

I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#always #drama #family #forward #i

What happened after Katrina is that people were stirred to action; there were an enormous number of contributions by people trying to make a difference. But then we forget. We've forgotten Katrina victims, we've forgotten the face of poverty. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#after #contributions #difference #enormous #face

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. ↗

— Pierre Bourdieu

#between #both #complicity #insofar #remain

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#find #found #indigenous #indigenous people #must

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight. ↗

— Pat Brown

#height #killer #low #noticeable #serial