“Where justice and authority let victims down, solidarity, activism, and a massive effort to create awareness will have to fill the breach.”

—  Sarah Seltzer

Cop rapes woman at gunpoint, 11-year-old rape victim smeared, accuser sued for $2 million: is US society failing victims? http://www.alternet.org/story/152140/cop_rapes_woman_at_gunpoint,_11-year-old_rape_victim_smeared,_accuser_sued_for_$2_million:_is_us_society_failing_victims?, Alternet (August 23, 2011).

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Where justice and authority let victims down, solidarity, activism, and a massive effort to create awareness will have …" by Sarah Seltzer?
Sarah Seltzer photo

Related quotes

“Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.”

Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence

Source: In Search of Excellence (1982), p. i.

“Solidarity is not just an awareness of what it means to be together. It does not have to exist solely because of common goals or interests. Solidarity should be born as a form of appreciation.”

Titon Rahmawan
Gro Harlem Brundtland photo

“We have an opportunity to launch a massive effort against infectious diseases.”

Gro Harlem Brundtland (1939) Norwegian politician

Awake! magazine 2003, 10/22 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102003763?q=Brundtland&p=par

“Be a sincere effort never so misguided, to laugh at it is a breach of faith with decency.”

Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957)

Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), p. 82

Pope John Paul II photo

“There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.”

Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint

Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, 8 December 1999

Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_08121999_xxxiii-world-day-for-peace_en.html

Brendan Behan photo

“An author's first duty is to let down his country.”

Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright

As quoted in The Guardian (1960), and also in The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary of Amoral Advice (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 20

Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale photo

“Justice can be peaceably and effectually administered there only where there is recognised authority and adequate power.”

Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale (1783–1851) British lawyer

Duke of Brunswick v. Bang of Hanover (1844), 6 Beav. 49.
Quote

David Levithan photo

“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”

David Levithan book Wide Awake

Source: Wide Awake

Aung San Suu Kyi photo

“Our endeavours have also been sustained by the activities of strong and principled women all over the world who have campaigned not only for my own release but, more importantly, for our cause. I cannot let this opportunity pass without speaking of the gratitude we feel towards our sisters everywhere, from heads of government to busy housewives. Their efforts have been a triumphant demonstration of female solidarity and of the power of an ideal to cross all frontiers.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy

Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995)

“The world is filled with millions of 17, 19 and 21 year olds with the necessary programming skills, no day job yet, and a passion to create. Think of the Internet as the great egalitarian environment where multi-billion dollar conglomerates are regularly out-maneuvered by the efforts of individuals.”

Richard Menta American journalist

Source MP3: You Can't Catch Me http://web.archive.org/web/20031217084752/www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2000/catch.html - 6/16/2000
Quotes from the MP3 Newswire

Related topics