What's good about talking about being victimized is that it is the beginning of being able to stop it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
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 not a victim, and I don't need to behave like one.
You can definitely become a victim and let people completely destroy your life.
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
Everybody is not a victim.
I don't want to be a victim.
More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
The idea of victimage is a dreadful thing, a product of a safe middle-class perspective. What people who are not safe develop is a tragic wisdom, a wisdom that embraces contradiction and seeks a sense of balance rather than going to extremes.