Blast from the Past: May 2010

Thursday, May 6, 2010

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".

The above quote is from Edmund Burke, but is paraphrased from this longer statement that I found today. Stirring stuff:

"It is not enough in a situation of trust in the commonwealth, that a man means well to his country; it is not enough that in his single person he never did an evil act, but always voted according to his conscience, and even harangued against every design which he apprehended to be prejudicial to the interests of his country. This innoxious and ineffectual character, that seems formed upon a plan of apology and disculpation, falls miserably short of the mark of public duty. That duty demands and requires that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent; that what is evil should not only be detected, but defeated. When the public man omits to put himself in a situation of doing his duty with effect it is an omission that frustrates the purposes of his trust almost as much as if he had formally betrayed it. It is surely no very rational account of a man's life, that he has always acted right but has taken special care to act in such a manner that his endeavours could not possibly be productive of any consequence."

Duty demands and requires that what is right should not only be made known, but made prevalent, that what is evil should not only be detected, but defeated.

Go, Edmund!

It Hits Home

"1 in 3 women are survivors of childhood sexual abuse,
we are your grandmothers, sisters, daughters, partners, cousins, friends....
Listen, believe, make our journey easier...."

(kindly contributed by Lucy)

Questions and Wonderings

Thanks to a prompting from a friend I have been revisiting and revamping the blogsite a little bit, and wondering about what new threads to introduce that could be of value to childhood sexual abuse sufferers/carers/friends and family.

Please feel free to drop in and add your comments and questions and 'always wondered's' - I would love to hear from you.

"Breathing in I calm myself - breathing out I smile..."
Barb.

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The Bill of Basic Human Rights

Participants in assertion training groups have identified more than 100 rights from which these eleven most basic ones were derived.
1. The right to act in ways that promote your dignity and self-respect (as long as others’ rights are not violated in the process).
2. The right to be treated with respect.
3. The right to say no and not feel guilty.
4. The right to experience and express your feelings.
5. The right to take time to slow down and think.
6. The right to change your mind.
7. The right to ask for what you want.
8. The right to do less than you are humanly capable of doing.
9. The right to ask for information.
10. The right to make mistakes.
11. The right to feel good about yourself.

Movies that Move Me - (please take care, some can be quite triggering)

Movies that deal with the subjects of abuse, trauma, mental illness, memory loss, and healing
A Beautiful Mind
About a Boy
As Good as it Gets
Being There
Benny and Joon
The Brave One
The Butterfly Effect
City of Joy
The Color Purple
Contact
Dead Again
Dead Poets Society
Enough
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Fifty First Dates
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
The Flying Scotsman
Girl, Interrupted
Good Will Hunting
Life is Beautiful
The Majestic
The Manchurian Candidate
Margaret's Museum
Memento
Memoirs of a Geisha
Mystic River
Random Harvest
Ray
Regarding Henry
Sleepers
Sybil
Whale Rider
What Dreams May Come
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Quotes

"Healing is learning to use the three most necessary bones in your body - your wishbone, your funny bone, and your backbone."

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood - not to be childish ,but to be childlike - full of joy and wonder."
Barbara

“The commercial sexual exploitation and abuse of children is nothing less than a form of terrorism — one whose wanton destruction of young lives and futures must not be tolerated for another year, another day, another hour.”
Carol Bellamy, Former Director of the United States Peace Corps, Executive Director of UNICEF, and President and CEO of World Learning
http://children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/category/notable-quotes-about-children/

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”-
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), German Lutheran Pastor who participated in German Resistance movement against Nazism.

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
Helen Keller

"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are."
Rachel Naomi Remen

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
Billy Joel

"It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer."

"People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done."
http://www.dancinginthedarkness.com/articles.php?show=31&arc=151

"Pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
Kahlil Gibran

"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

"The desire to forget the past is a form of suicide.I have come to believe that many of us would sooner die than remove our masks and stand barefaced before the world."
Richard Bode

"The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent. "
James T. Walsh

"Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice. "
Robin Morgan

"Children’s bodies aren’t like automobiles with the assailant’s fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentially secret. It is the perfect crime."
Beatrix Campbell

(This one contributed by Zanabelle):
"Perhaps that is one reason why the Savior tearfully urged his Nephite followers to "behold your little ones" When we truly behold our little ones, we behold the glory, wonder, and majesty of God, our Eternal Father."
- M. Russell Ballard