My moms always told me, ‘How long you gonna play the victim?’ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Disasters are called natural, as if nature were the executioner and not the victim.
There’s no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.
I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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.
Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
I’m the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I’m a victim again. A result.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.
Kashmiri Pandits are the worst victim of intolerance who were forced to leave their houses, I saw their camps and am appalled to see the conditions they are forced to live in.
I’ve been many people. I’ve been the skinny girl. I’ve been the fat girl. Because I’ve become a character actress, I sort of fell victim to ‘Well, I don’t have to look good anymore.’
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between ‘the accuser’ and ‘the accused,’ there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim – a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
There’s nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that’s outside your control.
I went from not being known anywhere in the world to winning junior Wimbledon and six months later playing the Australian Open. I was a victim of my own success, really.
The Left not only needs a victim class, it has proven adept at inventing new victim classes as a means of exacerbating social conflict.
The highest hallmark of a civilized society is not the rapidity by which it exacts vengeance, but its ability to hold victim and victimizer in its compassionate heart.
There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.
I can only say, don’t be a victim of stress and distress. Just go out in the world and strive what you want to become.
John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story – about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table along with those who face discrimination based on the way that God or Nature or our Intelligent Designer created us.
I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I’ve done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I’m probably more suited in people’s minds to playing a corseted victim.
People will throw stones and hide their hands and then get back and play victim.
I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.
If you can’t take the heat, don’t be on that street… I get abused every day, and I don’t cry on anybody’s shoulder. I don’t play the victim card. I get abused, threatened – not only on Twitter but off it, also.
The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.
It’s unfortunate, I’ve been the victim of some Australian press.
To make it big, a fighter needs power. Otherwise, sooner or later, he’ll fall victim to opponents who force the issue and take two or three punches to land one.
Throughout my career, my family and I have fallen victim to inappropriate attempts to contact me by several unknown individuals.
The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.
It is so easy to fall victim of everybody else’s definition of what you should be.
If I don’t see myself as a victim, then I’m not a victim.
I’d rather be a victor than a victim.
The hacker mindset doesn’t actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.
I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being held hostage by a regime. I accept this, as Pakistan has traditional elements who find it hard to reconcile with a man whose wife works and who other men salute perforce of her office.
To put the point sharply: If an informer in the French underground who sent a friend to the torture chambers of the Gestapo was equally a victim, then there can be no right or wrong in life that I understand.
‘Stop playing the victim.’ – unless you’ve been cast in a community theater production of ‘Law & Order: SVU,’ I’m not sure why anyone would choose to play victim.
Most people are basically a victim of the circumstances of their life. They have things like 9/11, they have terrorism threats, they have new war threats, they have economy problems, and they think, ‘What can I do? I’m basically a victim.’
It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
If you go into a police station and report a burglary the first question is not: ‘Are you telling the truth?’ If you are the victim of a sexual offence, very often in the past that has been the first question.
Our challenge is to stop people from driving drunk. Punishing them afterwards doesn’t bring back the victim or make the family feel better. The idea is to stop the DWI before it happens.
If you’re not a victim, and you don’t need help, then you’re definitely seen as a threat as a woman.
I myself have been the victim of some absolutely horrific speech throughout the years; I know how bad it can make you feel – and yet, I still believe firmly that no words directed at me could ever feel worse than having to worry about losing my right to use my own.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
And I think it’s because good cons are all based on the victim’s need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.
You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
This is the problem with modern-day feminism. It used to be about equality. Now, it’s about bashing men, asking for free stuff, and tearing down other women for refusing to play victim to the trumped-up, B.S. ‘War on Women.’
I certainly know first hand the waste one lady can create through her primping routine, because I am a victim of fashion: to me a day without makeup and a bouffant to match is a day wasted. I love it all – whether it’s fancy, cheap or, I’m ashamed to say, even if it’s bad for the environment.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.
I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy.
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles – poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
