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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.

More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

Everybody is not a victim.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

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'm not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.

I came from a very poor background. I came from children's homes; I came from a violent family, and against all the odds, I succeeded.