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    Christopher Hitchens
    “To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
    ― Christopher Hitchens
    tags: atheism, child-abuse, children, feminism, hell, religion, religion-and-children, rhetorical-questions, sexism, women, women-and-religion
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    Aldous Huxley
    “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
    tags: child-abuse, conditioning, indoctrination, mind-control, parenting
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    Laura Davis
    “Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
    ― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, guilt, healing, innocence, love, manipulation, repressed-feelings, shame, trust
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    “Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right for life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.”
    ― Brad Pitt
    tags: child-abuse, children, health-care, healthcare, medicine, neglect
    158 likes

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    Nora Roberts
    “The wounded recognized the wounded.”
    ― Nora Roberts, Rising Tides
    tags: child-abuse, wounded
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    Vashti Quiroz-Vega
    “Don’t turn your face away.
    Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know.
    Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you.
    Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you.

    Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance.
    Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care.
    To be concerned is to be human.
    To act is to care.”
    ― Vashti Quiroz-Vega
    tags: act, awareness, bullying, child-abuse, concern-for-others, fear, open-your-eyes, spousal-abuse, truth-of-life, verbal-abuse
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  • #7
    Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable
    “Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.”
    ― Judith Spencer, Satan's High Priest
    tags: abuse, amnesia, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, dissociation, dissociative-amnesia, dissociative-disorders, dissociative-identity-disorder, madness, memory, memory-loss, mental-health, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, ptsd, repressing-emotions, repression, ritual-abuse, trauma
    78 likes

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    Nathaniel Branden
    “The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.”
    ― Nathaniel Branden, Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, childhood-trauma, psychology, self-esteem, self-knowledge, trauma
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    Eloisa James
    “She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.”
    ― Eloisa James, An Affair Before Christmas
    tags: child-abuse, daughters, mothers
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    Chris Crutcher
    “As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child." No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid.”
    ― Chris Crutcher, King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography – The Riveting, Laugh-Out-Loud Funny Young Adult Coming-of-Age Memoir
    tags: child-abuse, children, christianity, jesus, neglect, old-testament, religion, spiritual-abuse
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    Olga Trujillo
    “I came to understand intellectually that my mind used dissociation as a way to protect me from knowing things. Dr. Summer repeatedly explained, "If you had woken up every morning and knew that later that day or evening you would be abused, you would have killed yourself". I would always nod, as if in agreement. It all made sense in a theoretical way, but I could not and did not want to truly understand or accept what had happened to me.”
    ― Olga Trujillo, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
    tags: child-abuse, child-abuse-survivor, child-sexual-abuse, dissociation, dissociative-amnesia, dissociative-disorder, dissociative-identity-disorder
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  • #12
    “The little girl's dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.”
    ― Joan Frances Casey, The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
    tags: abusive-father, abusive-parents, attachment-trauma, child-abuse, child-abuser, child-sexual-abuse, disorganized-attachment, dissociation, grooming, trauma-bonding
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    Ellen Bass
    “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”
    ― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
    tags: abuse, abusive, blame, child-abuse, childhood-abuse, courage, emotional-abuse, guilt, healing, innocence, lies, reality, recovery, relationships, responsibility, sexual-abuse, shame, survivor, victim
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  • #14
    “Violators cannot live with the truth: survivors cannot live without it. There are those who still, once again, are poised to invalidate and deny us. If we don't assert our truth, it may again be relegated to fantasy. But the truth won't go away. It will keep surfacing until it is recognized. Truth will outlast any campaigns mounted against it, no matter how mighty, clever, or long. It is invincible. It's only a matter of which generation is willing to face it and, in so doing, protect future generations from ritual abuse.”
    ― Chrystine Oksana, Safe Passage to Healing: A Guide for Survivors of Ritual Abuse
    tags: abusers, child-abuse, child-protection, child-sexual-abuse-lies, deny, fantasy, invalidate, invalidation, media-campaign, media-distortions, perpetrators, propaganda, rape, ritual-abuse, sexual-abuse, society-denial, survivors, truth-violators, victims
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    Richelle E. Goodrich
    “The fact is, the man who’d begotten me didn’t want me. In his eyes I should never have been born. And perhaps that would’ve been best. As it was, my existence had proven to be nothing more than a nuisance for everyone. I angered my father, brought strife upon my mother, irritated my teachers, and annoyed the other children who were forced to interact with me in school. All by simply being.

    When you aren’t loved, you aren’t real. Life is cold, like the stone against my palm.”
    ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
    tags: abuse, annabelle, child-abuse, richelle, richelle-goodrich, unloved, unwanted
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    Stefan Molyneux
    “If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.”
    ― Stefan Molyneux
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-trauma, freedom, parenting, peaceful-parenting, psychology, ptsd, relationships, self-esteem, self-knowledge, therapy, trauma, unconscious
    75 likes

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  • #17
    In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never
    “In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-abuse, disclosure, dissociative-amnesia, dysfunctional-family, family-torn-apart, incest, insane, repressed, repressed-memories
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  • #18
    “She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.”
    ― David L. Calof
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, abusive-childhood, abusive-parents, avoidance, child-abuse, child-rape, childhood-abuse, defense-mechanism, denial, denial-of-abuse, denial-of-child-abuse, denial-of-incest, dissociated-amnesia, dissociative-amnesia, fear-of-truth, flashback, flashbacks, healing, healing-abuse, healing-from-abuse, healing-insights, incest, intrusive, minimization, minimizing, minimizing-issues, parental-abuse, post-traumatic-stress-disorder, posttraumatic-stress-disorder, psychological-defence, ptsd, reliving-the-past, sadistic-abuse, subconscious, subconscious-mind, survivors, trauma-memories, traumatic-experiences, traumatic-memories, traumatized
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    Naomi Alderman
    “She listens at doors and around corners. She has always had this habit. A child in danger must learn to pay more attention to the adults than a child loved and cherished.”
    ― Naomi Alderman, The Power
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, child-abuse
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    Beverly Engel
    “Why isn't there a commandment to "honor thy children" or at least one to "not abuse thy children"? The notion that we must honor our parents causes many people to bury their real feelings and set aside their own needs in order to have a relationship with people they would otherwise not associate with. Parents, like anyone else, need to earn respect and honor, and honoring parents who are negative and abusive is not only impossible but extremely self-abusive. Perhaps, as with anything else, honoring our parents starts with honoring ourselves. For many adult children, honoring themselves means not having anything to do with one or both of their parents.”
    ― Beverly Engel, Divorcing a Parent
    tags: abuse, child, parent
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    Paul Joseph Watson
    “The fact is that the modern implementation of the prison planet has far surpassed even Orwell’s 1984 and the only difference between our society and those fictionalized by Huxley, Orwell and others, is that the advertising techniques used to package the propaganda are a little more sophisticated on the surface.
    Yet just a quick glance behind the curtain reveals that the age old tactics of manipulation of fear and manufactured consensus are still being used to force humanity into accepting the terms of its own imprisonment and in turn policing others within the prison without bars.”
    ― Paul Joseph Watson
    tags: 1984, big-brother, despotism, freedom, homeland-security, liberty, orwell, police-state, war-on-terror
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    Steven Magee
    “It is the common peoples duty to police the police.”
    ― Steven Magee
    tags: common, duty, law, law-enforcement, officer, people, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, police-officer, police-service, police-state, policeman, policemen, sheriff
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    Steven Magee
    “The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.”
    ― Steven Magee
    tags: fact, lost, lost-quotes, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, police-officer, police-procedural, police-reform, police-service, police-state, policeman, policemen, public, servants, sight
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    Steven Magee
    “There is no shortage of despicable law enforcement departments in the USA.”
    ― Steven Magee
    tags: departments, despicable, enforcement, law, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, police-officer, police-reform, police-state, policeman, policemen, sheriff, shortage, usa
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    Steven Magee
    “Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.”
    ― Steven Magee
    tags: affairs, being, colleagues, corrupt, corrupt-leaders, corrupt-politics, corruption, corruption-quotes, government, government-abuse, government-corruption, government-cover-ups, government-propaganda, government-quotes, government-regulation, governments, history, incompetent, internal, long, officers, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, police-officer, police-procedural, police-reform, police-service, police-state, policeman, policemen, protected
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    Nicanor Parra
    “TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT

    To make a long story short
    I leave all my possessions
    to the Municipal Slaughterhouse
    to the Special Unit of the Police Department
    to Lucky Dog Lotto

    So now if you want you can shoot”
    ― Nicanor Parra, Antipoems: How to Look Better and Feel Great
    tags: irony, jab, police-state
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    George Orwell
    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: future
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    George Orwell
    “Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: power
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    George Orwell
    “I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984, nineteen-eighty-four
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    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    ― Aldous Huxley
    tags: attributed, intellectualism
    1235 likes



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