Christine Keeler Quotes

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.

It's very difficult for felons to live in society.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

There is no excuse for using someone's mental health as a stick with which to beat them.

We think of our prison inmates as the dregs of society, and we scorn them and push them off to the side and forget about them. We have to remember that they are humans, and they have rights, and yes, they did wrong, but we all have one shot at doing wrong, you know?

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

I get beat up on every project.

I was different. I got beat up every day.

I think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up.

We will never, ever weaken our resolve to be tough on the worst offenders. But we will responsibly take steps to assist our friends and neighbors who deserve a second chance to contribute to our society.

I know what it's like to be threatened. I know what it's like to be humiliated and targeted.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

At school, I was frequently subjected to racial abuse.

I got beat up my whole life.

Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

I've gone from being bullied by jocks as a kid to being bullied by nerds as an adult.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

May God forgive us for the times when we as individuals and as a Church failed to seek out and care for those little ones who were frightened, alone and in pain because someone was abusing them. That we did not always respond to your cries with the concern of the Good Shepherd is a matter of deep shame.

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace.

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.