“If you teach your kids to be a victim, you’ll rob them of hope.” — Frank Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
“Feminism...is not 'women as victims' but women refusing to be victims.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“Justifying a demonic act does not make the actor less demonic; justifying only makes the negator more complicit.” — Glenn Hefley Copy Share Image
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“We mute the realization of malevolence- which is too threatening to bear - by turning offenders into victims themselves and by describing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you have been raped or sexually assaulted and you have been blamed, or fear that you may be blamed, I just… — Robert Uttaro Copy Share Image
“In fact, the teenager's concept of "square" (f the term is still in use), when they talk about their parents, is almost… — William Ryan Copy Share Image
“The main difference is that the enlightened believe that the poor criminal should be rehabilitated while the righteous believe that the immoral… — William Ryan Copy Share Image
“Jokes and media slurs about rape and its survivors not only desensitize the issue but also have an impact on rape conviction… — Alison Saunders head of the Crown Prosecution Service Copy Share Image
“Oddly then, in our search for meaning, we often assign victims too much blame for their assaults, and offenders too little. Our… — Anna Salter Copy Share Image
“She was so upset about a blog that maybe a total of six people read yet had no compassion for her granddaughters… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed… — Diane Langberg Copy Share Image
“For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable… — Judith Spencer Copy Share Image
“- Rape is a unique crime, representing both a physical and psychological violation. More than with any other crime the victim can… — Liz Kelly Copy Share Image
“Blame is a Defense Against Powerlessness Betrayal trauma changes you. You have endured a life-altering shock, and are likely living with PTSD… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Attitude Is Everything We live in a culture that is blind to betrayal and intolerant of emotional pain. In New Age crowds… — Sandra Lee Dennis Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“In the 1890s, when Freud was in the dawn of his career, he was struck by how many of his female patients… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“Now in my eleven years of conventional life I had learned many things and one of them is what it means to… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
