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The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Respect Character Struggle Acceptance

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.

Steven Spielberg

War Time People Back

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.'

Work You Support Saying

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

Want Turn Victims

'Me too' became a term that was both succinct and powerful, and it was a way to ring up immediate empathy between survivors.

Me Empathy Way Powerful

I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.

Work Me Selfish Think

In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors.

Me Talking About Many

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

Me Time People Sympathy

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

Healing Know Want Possible

I have a lot of experience - not just with my 'Me Too' campaign but with survivors disclosing. I know that there is a wave of emotions that happens after that.

Me Experience Know Emotions

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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.

Beautiful Me Opportunity Think

There are a series of emotions that most survivors go through after disclosing. It starts with feeling great, like the weight on your shoulders has been lifted, and then you're alone with your thoughts, like, 'Why did I do that?' And then, what about the person who gets backlash?

Alone Thoughts You Great

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

People Nothing Destroy Relentless

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.

Family Best Myself Me

It's sad that grandkids show up at the end of obituaries, way behind the list of work place achievements, social clubs and survivors. Why last? If you've got grandkids, you know they're first when it comes to the joy in your life.

Life Work Sad You

I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.

Christian Louboutin

I Am People Shoes See

The Holocaust survivors are among the most inspiring people I have had the privilege to meet.

People Meet Privilege Holocaust

When someone died in the wilderness of frontier America, that person's physical remains were buried and the handcarts continued west, but the mourning survivors had hope for their loved one's eternal soul. However, when someone dies spiritually in the wilderness of sin, hope may be replaced by dread and fear for the loved one's eternal welfare.

Hope Fear Soul Loved

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

Life Love Wisdom Time

The thing you see in survivors is that they express feelings - I won't say some of the things they tell their doctors, when doctors tell them they're going to die in six months. Boy, do they let the doctor know how they feel about that statement.

You Doctor Die Feel

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Women Courage Look End

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

Family Mother Father Parents

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

Family Mother Father Parents

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.

Death Health People Birds

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

Mother Father Boy Mother And Father

I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.

Christopher Plummer

Today City Nobody Want

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