#victim

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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.


Peter McWilliams


#happens #life #life happens #person #victim

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.


Jon Meacham


#afforded #brutally #day #does #ever

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.


Rick Mercer


#going #networks #parties #political #political parties

If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.


Nelson A. Miles


#been #constantly #fallen #graves #green

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.


Alice Miller


#another #believe #childhood #difficult #does

Over 13 percent of women in college have reported being a victim of stalking during the school year, and one out of every five college women has reported being sexually assaulted. It is simple to talk about statistics. It is more difficult to remember that each number is a victim and represents a daughter, a sister or a friend.


Gwen Moore


#assaulted #being #college #daughter #difficult

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.


Toni Morrison


#black #city #complicity #enormous #none

War is murder. And the military preparations now being made for a potential major confrontation are aimed at collective murder. In a nuclear age the victims would be numbered by the millions. This naked truth must be faced.


Alva Myrdal


#aimed #being #collective #confrontation #faced

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.


V. S. Naipaul


#attractive #begin #being #doing #got

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.


Liam Neeson


#approached #became #both #collins #down