55 Survivors Quotes for You to Enjoy

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it. Joshua Oppenheimer

Relatives Lost Community Too Scared About Had Talk Were Been Survivors Working Who

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors. Kai Bird

Girl Parents Young Sense Live Dread Some Horrors Unseen Absorb Unspoken Without Anticipation Child Survivors Same Anxious Sensibilities Young Girl Holocaust Transmitted Her Fragility

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. Max Lerner

History Part Written Most Survivors So-Called Victors Lessons

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors. Maxine Peake

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis. Norman Finkelstein

I think we're all survivors, to be honest. I mean, some of us more than others - some of us have to survive far more horrendous things than others. It's all relative: whatever your experience is. Passenger

Experience Whatever To Be Honest Think Others Relative Some Horrendous More Survive Than Survivors Mean To Survive Far Us Your Things Honest

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses. Paul Stamets

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. Pearl S. Buck

People Nothing Destroy Relentless No-One Survivors Chinese Chinese People

I think that women are powerful and they're multifaceted and they're survivors; they don't have to depend on a man to do the things they needed them to do, whether it was hunting or lifting heavy things, so what's a man's place now? Who knows! Rashida Jones

Man Women Depend Think Hunting Lifting Powerful Knows Women Are Survivors Heavy Whether Place Them Who Multifaceted Now Things Needed

Before I started chemotherapy treatments, I wrote down the best advice from doctors, family, friends, books, and survivors and created an 'Owner's Manual' to help me take care of myself. It would remind me that cancer is doable. Regina Brett

Best Myself Family Me Cancer Care Doctors Advice Before Down Books Would Take Take Care Remind Wrote Chemotherapy Friends Survivors Owner Created Manual Help Started Treatments

I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares. Ronen Bergman

Best Son Parents Living About Haunted Through Selection He Heard Infamous Auschwitz Friends Child Survivors Process Holocaust Two Nightmares

Black people are achievers; we're survivors. Roxie Roker

People Black Survivors Achievers

The work is more than just about the amplification of survivors and quantifying their numbers. The work is really about survivors talking to each other and saying, 'I see you. I support you. I get it.' Tarana Burke

Work Saying You Other See About More Support Talking Than Get Survivors Just Really Each Amplification Numbers

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers. Tarana Burke

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What's interesting to me is that people engage survivors from a place of pity all the time - a place of sympathy. Tarana Burke

Time Me People Sympathy Survivors Pity Place Interesting Engage

I didn't start Me Too as a hashtag, and had I had the opportunity to, I probably wouldn't have done it that way. I think that what has happened subsequently has been beautiful to watch, but what concerns me is what all of these survivors are going to do now. Tarana Burke

Beautiful Me Opportunity Think Too Way Has-Been Had Concerns Been Survivors Subsequently Done Going Happened Now Start Watch

In 'Last to Die,' three children living in different cities are the only survivors when their families are slaughtered. Two years later, their foster families are murdered, and these three orphans are once again the only survivors. Tess Gerritsen

Three Living Later Once Cities Only Years Families Survivors Die Children Different Again Foster Orphans Slaughtered Last Two

Air India happened when I was about five years old but... I've attended memorials with respect to the victims and the families, the survivors of this horrible and heinous act. I've talked about how everyone denounces it. Jagmeet Singh

Respect Old Everyone Air India Memorials Horrible About Attended Talked How Years Five Families Survivors Happened Victims Act

The main reason I started The Katie Piper Foundation was because I had treatment abroad that I wanted other burns survivors in this country to have access to. Katie Piper

Country Other Abroad Main Had Main Reason Because Access Piper Survivors Wanted Burns Reason Katie Foundation Started Treatment

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