Victims Quotes

Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that's become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society.

Tomorrow will be the third anniversary of the large-scale war against Ukraine: a painful and shameful occasion for the whole of humanity! As I reiterate my closeness to the suffering Ukrainian people, I invite you to remember the victims of all armed conflicts, and to pray for the gift of peace in Palestine, Israel and throughout the Middle East, Myanmar, Kivu and Sudan.

Civilian victims [in war] are not 'collateral damage' but men and woman, with names and surnames, who lose their lives.

Together with you, I would like once more to ask forgiveness of all the victims. The pain and the shame we feel must become an occasion for conversion: Never again! Never again can the Christian community allow itself to be infected by the idea that one culture is superior to others, or that it is legitimate to employ ways of coercing others.

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are with them.

People have always been and will always be silly victims of deception and self-deception in politics, unless they learn to recognize the interests of certain classes behind any moral, religious, political, social phrases, statements, promises.

We should not look at terrorism from the name-plates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are their victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you may be looking at another name. We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on Intenational Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion.

The duty of the State toward the citizen is the duty of the servant to its master.... One of the duties of the State is that of caring for those of its citizens who find themselves the victims of such adverse circumstances as makes them unable to obtain even the necessities for mere existence without the aid of others.

It is an old strategy of tyrants to delude their victims into fighting their battles for them.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.

Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

Many poor whites, however, were the derivative victims of slavery. As long as labor was cheapened by the involuntary servitude of the black man, the freedom of white labor, especially in the South, was little more than a myth.

Individuals will get bogged down in a particular mountain in a particular spot, and thereby become the victims of stagnant complacency. So, this afternoon, I would like to deal with three or four symbolic mountains that we have been in long enough-mountains that we must move out of if we are to go forward in our world and if civilization is to survive.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls "enemy," for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.

Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.

The accumulating complexities of modern life, the kinetic invasion of the twentieth century finds the individual hemmed in by gigantic institutions that threaten from all sides, politically, scientifically and economically. We are becoming the victims of soul-conditioning, of sanctions and permits.

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.