Frederick Douglass Quotes

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions.

The best way to control the nigger is to whip him when he does not obey.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

Fighting means you could lose. Bullying means you can't. A bully wants to beat somebody; he doesn't want to fight somebody.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through violence; they feel no compunction over being violent to women, children, and one another.

Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

I never caught on to being a bully.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.

Torture is a very humiliating experience. The goal is not to obtain information but to punish and break you so that you won't do anything against the authorities. You are made an example to others so that they will be too terrified to do anything either.

I’m going to be beaten and unless some change takes place, badly beaten.

Wherever a colored person was to be found, he or she was whipped till the blood formed pools at their feet and were threatened with death if they did not cease screaming in pain.

The more pain you inflict on someone, the more they will tell you what they think you want to hear.

I was highly influenced by violence.

The predator wants your silence. It feeds their power, entitlement, and they want it to feed your shame.

I'd rather not have to come face to face with predators. I'd rather not be harassed. But no. Those weren't my choices to make, were they?

Let's not glamorize abuse.

Stalking can have devastating consequences, and I am determined that we do all we can to protect victims from these prolonged and terrifying campaigns of abuse that can last years, leaving many people too afraid to leave their homes and unable to get on with their lives.

When you abuse someone, you limit their perspective, and you trap them in your view of them or your view of the world.

I got beat up my whole life.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I paused, looking over my shoulder to make certain I was alone. I drew her eye makeup, smudged by tears. In her watery eyes I drew the reflection of the commander, standing in front of her, his fist clenched. I continued to sketch, exhaled, and shook out my hands.