All Quotes By Tag: Sexual-abuse
“Believe in yourself that you can create thechange you seek, by accepting things as they are. By accepting the things as they are, you allow yourself to make the right choices.”
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“You alone caan create the change you seek. But how? By accepting things as they are, you allow yourself to make apt choices.”
“So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis”
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“The church may update its techniques and methods, but it is always in service of the institutional organism. This is one of the reasons why the pedophile priest issue is and will remain an endemic disease in the Catholic Church.”
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“Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.”
“Be sensitive to those around you, sometimes they could be silent but screaming for help from within”
“Ladies, the only thing that gives a man the right to touch you is your permission.”
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“Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn’t even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.”
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“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn’t even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?”
“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.”
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