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Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change -- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens. -- Judith Lewis Herman
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable? -- Catharine MacKinnon
Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator. -- Virginia H. Pearce
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. -- Jalal Talabani
Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin. -- Desmond Tutu
Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties. -- James T. Walsh
an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime. -- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals. -- Rick Perry
When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like returning to the perpetrator for healing after you've been abused. -- Patrick Califia
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt. -- Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet: human unconsciousness. That realization is true forgiveness. With forgiveness, your victim identity dissolves, and your true power emerges--the power of Presence. Instead of blaming the darkness, you bring in the light. -- Eckhart Tolle
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad possibilities, and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete -- Kay Redfield Jamison
One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holocaust study and that increasingly I wanted it to be of perpetrators, which I thought was more needed. -- Robert Jay Lifton
Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner. -- Desmond Tutu
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death. -- Immanuel Kant
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse. -- Alice Miller
The more you face the truth, the angrier you will probably become. You have a right to be angry about being sexually abused. You have a right to be angry with the perpetrator, regardless of who it was, how long ago the sexual abuse occurred, or how much he/she has changed. -- Beverly Engel
...God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver.... From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. No one who is seriously wronged can "just forgive" the perpetrator.... But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. You bear it yourself. All forgiveness, then, is costly. -- Timothy Keller
I want people to leave the theater with a greater understanding of the rich cultural heritage of Pakistan. "Song of Lahore" moves beyond headlines and stereotypes and shows that a vast majority of Pakistanis are not perpetrators of religious violence - they are victims of it. The beautiful cultural heritage of the region belies its image in the West as monolithically religious, intolerant, and violent. -- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality. -- Douglas Adams
There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists. -- Christopher X. Brodeur
Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability. -- Leslie Morgan Steiner
We've all been victims. We've all been perpetrators. And, so there is a group that is still experiencing that. -- Christine McCormick Day
The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught. -- Emily Yoffe
How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers. -- Harvey Fierstein
Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.' -- MF Grimm
To avoid being sexist and racist, we should assume that half the perpetrators of violent crimes are white, liberal women. -- Michael Z. Williamson
The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology -- M. M. Mangasarian
The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception. -- John Rucyahana
Four years ago, the perpetrators believed they would bring America and the rest of the world to chaos, ... But they were mistaken. -- Vladimir Putin
The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics. -- Michael Eric Dyson
People who make films don't think they have any obligation to help bring (perpetrators) to justice, they are only interested in art, not in justice. -- Efraim Zuroff
Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are many thousands of books on particular assassinations and on the subject in general, but nearly all of them deal with the victims, not the perpetrators. -- George Fetherling
If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York. -- Ted Turner
Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse. -- Philip Zimbardo
Mehlis will go all the way and we want to go all the way. These arrests show that no matter how high the perpetrators are, they will face the consequences of what they did. -- Rafik Hariri
Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together. -- Billy Graham
The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests. -- Sam Harris
In his condemnation [Karl] Marx referred to institutionalized religion,that has precisely the function of anesthetizing men till they do not notice the in- justice of which they are the perpetrators and the victims. -- Erich Fromm
Defining men as the perpetrators of all violence is a viciously immoral judgment of an entire gender. And defining women as inherently nonviolent condemns us to the equally restrictive role of sweet, meek, and weak. -- Katherine Dunn

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