Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why are you dressed as a man?" Neeva said. "Why do you act like..." She paused. "Why do you act like... like… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
Even if I had money to invest I wouldn't invest it in oil companies - - or their bankers, suppliers, customers ...… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 62 percent of households headed by illegal immigrants use some form of cash or non-cash… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am deeply aware of the pain caused to any victim of child abuse, especially at the hands of a trustworthy person… — David Hope Copy Share Image
The legal toleration of abortion or of euthanasia can in no way claim to be based on respect for the conscience of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but… — Charles L. Bailey Jr Copy Share Image
“In a healthy relationship, vulnerability is wonderful. It leads to increased intimacy and closer bonds. When a healthy person realizes that he… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war,… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Fear, if it be not immoderate, puts a guard about us that does watch and defend us; but credulity keeps us naked,… — Owen Feltham Copy Share Image
The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Despite its popularity amongst critical criminologists, the empirical basis of the moral panic account of sexual abuse has been shown to be… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but the political abuses… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to:… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“The odd sensation I had while cooking would often last through the meal, then dissolve as I climbed the stairs. I would… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“My job as a therapist is to help victims of trauma understand that they are not to blame. They are not responsible… — Michelle Stevens Copy Share Image
“She's a baby," Maggie told me. "Babies wear pastels." "Says who?" I asked. ... "Society. The same society, I might add, that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 TAT: I want to move back to an area that I'm not real comfortable asking you… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
“It was that culture of denial that allowed my abuse to take place to start with. Did you know that it wasn't… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care… — Jeanne Woodford Copy Share Image
“Emotional abusers condition their victims to feel ashamed, inadequate, and unstable. This is because they are cowards, incapable of healthy relationships with… — Jackson MacKenzie Copy Share Image
“Treating Abuse Today 3(4) pp. 26-33 The national discussion regarding the veridical truth of memories of childhood abuse will have a beneficial… — David L. Calof Copy Share Image
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“Society gives the image of sexual violators as weird, ugly, anti-social, alcoholics. Society gives the impression that violators kidnap children are out… — Rosenna Bakari Copy Share Image
“A problem is that Nathan documents Shirley Mason as suffering from a variety of symptoms of a complex dissociative disorder prior to… — Colin A. Ross Copy Share Image
During the last 100 years, the House of Lords has never contributed one iota to popular liberties or popular freedom, or done… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All… — John Parsons Copy Share Image
“I have met survivors from different parts of the country who have reported being ritually abused, some on college campuses by administrators,… — Robert B. Rockwell Copy Share Image
If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence… — Michael Dean Crapo Copy Share Image
“Some alters are what Dr Ross describes in Multiple Personality Disorder as 'fragments'. which are 'relatively limited psychic states that express only… — Alice Jamieson Copy Share Image
“The true test of a warrior is how your 'stance' holds up after any 'circumstance'. Meaning, even after the stormiest weather, a… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“One example was the assertion that a seven-year FBI study revealed no evidence of organized cult or ritual activity in the United… — Pamela Sue Perskin Copy Share Image
Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!"… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
