If liberty is abused, get ready for an awkward result

— Sunday Adelaja

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds' enlightenment.

— Ricky Maye

In cases of organized and multi-perpetrator abuse when the abuse occurs in the context of rituals and ceremonies, some elements of the experience may have been staged specifically with the intention of encouraging the disbelief of others if the victim were to report the crime. For example, someone reporting such a crime may mention that the devil was present, or that someone well-known was there, or that acts of magic were performed. These were tricks and deceptions by the abusers-often experienced by the victims after being given medication or hallucinogenic drugs - that render the account unbelievable, make the witness sound unreliable, and protect the perpetrators. (page 120, Chapter 9, Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient)

— Graeme Galton

I tend to walk around convinced that any amount of forgiveness that I could extend could never possibly compensate for the offenses that I’ve had to endure. Yet, maybe the greater offense is that I’ve got that backwards.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is essential that children who are directly or indirectly affected by domestic violence receive psychological care.

— Asa Don Brown

I want everyone that has been abused by someone in their childhood to know that you can get past it. Having DID is not the end of the world; it's the beginning of your new life. DID allow the victim of exceptional abuse the ability to “forget” the abuse and continue living. Without it, I may have gone crazy as a teen and spent my life in an as a teen and spent my life in a psychiatric hospital.

— Dauna Cole

Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from watered graves and craters left by bombs. Let the silence rise from empty bellies and surge from broken hearts. The silence of the hidden and forgotten. The silence of the abused and tortured. The silence of the persecuted and imprisoned. The silence of the hanged and massacred. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so the hungry may eat my words and the poor may wear my words. Loud as all the sounds can be, let my silence be loud so I may resurrect the dead and give voice to the oppressed. My silence speaks.

— Kamand Kojouri

Maybe it’s a lot less about focusing on the fact that we’re all victims and a lot more about the changing the fact that we’re all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the first place.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Society has seldom considered the vicarious effects of domestic violence between partners on the lives of children.

— Asa Don Brown