Community Quote by Zainab Salbi

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

— Tarana Burke

. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the…

— John Boyne

Victims and survivors deserve more than a person seeking a headline.

— Tamron Hall

[T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think…

— Richard Brown

“Not even children were spared. To see history repeating itself, and the calamities of the past unfolding again, spelled out in the eyes of…

— Widad Akreyi

“You get consumed with this. You get consumed. You start meeting these people. These victims. These survivors. And then you get consumed.”

— E. Benjamin Skinner

“The burden therefore rests with the American legal community and with the American human-rights lobbies and non-governmental organizations. They can either persist in averting…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Through the ages, many different groups have called themselves victims. Some came through wars and massacres. Some were slaves or minorities. But the Jews,…

— Celso Cukierkorn

In 'The Way Back' survivors were all ordinary people, and that's the whole point, that's who I felt these people should be, and they…

— Peter Weir

“Survivors are damaged to different degrees by their experiences. This does not depend on what happened physically. A Survivor who has been raped will…

— Carolyn Ainscough

“We're all being left out one way or the other. The survivors miss being heroes. The heroes miss being alive. The only ones not…

— Cynthia Bass

When I arrived in America, though I had left the war physically far behind, in my mind, the soldiers were still chasing to kill…

— Loung Ung

There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in…

— Charlie Higson

Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It…

— Karen Marie Moning

“You're a survivor. Each one of you. And survivors don't have the luxury of acting like regular people. We do what we have to…

— Deanna Roy