#victims

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives. ↗

— John McHugh

#dependent #east #fossil #fossil fuels #fuels

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. ↗

— Kate Millett

#begins #chief #emancipation #ending #homosexual

A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens. ↗

— Al Roker

#citizens #effort #federal #going #half

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#guilt #inexorable #innocence #logic #suggest

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#becomes #blame #evil #identified #illness

I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism. ↗

— Albert Speer

#dizzy #grow #i #important #manufactured

It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#cannot #change #come #committed #crimes

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist. ↗

— Mia Farrow

#bring #description #exist #hard #important

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#enemy #feel #fellow #inadequate #kill

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#anyone #blood #bombing #desperate #even