Roger Lapham Quotes

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

The moment that I realized my name was going to be said in the same sentence as children and sex, that's really intense. That's something I knew from that very moment, whatever happens past that point, something's out there in the air that is really bad.

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

There's nothing funny the first time about telling a story about getting beat up and it makes you leave high school.

I was tortured, and probably half of it was deserved, but I was bullied - so much so that there were days when I was like, 'I can't go to school today.' I was too scared.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.

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 use of rape or sexual intimidation as a means of punishment or retribution, whether by individuals or by groups, is unacceptable in our view.

I was assaulted twice by Aisleyne Horgan Wallace and Janice Dickinson.

Stalking is a cruel and incessant crime with often terrifying consequences. Victims can be tormented for years, left too scared to leave their homes and unnerved by the slightest unexpected sound.

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?

I remember walking home one day from school, and this car pulled up behind me really slow, and it gave me a really weird feeling, and all of a sudden it skimmed me, and the man was half naked and tried to pull me into his car and saying crazy things to me. And it was terrifying.

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

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

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

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.