Marsha P. Johnson Quotes

It takes only one person with a weapon to shatter a life, a family, a community.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.

The roads are filled with armed robbers, and murders for mere plunder are of daily occurrence.

My childhood ended in this horrible way. I lived in a country where I didn't trust anybody.

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

I've been raped in Macy's window at high noon.

I wonder why he shot me?.

One day guns were pulled on us by older guys. My friend had gone to sell his moped and they took the moped, my friend's phone and some money. But all he got from my pocket was a tub of Vaseline. I remember him saying, 'Oh, he's a sweet boy' and throwing my Vaseline on the floor.

I was in diapers when my parents left me with the babysitter to participate in an armored car robbery. They never came home.

I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.

For the average person walking down a dark street late at night, a promise from a politician is worth far less than a .38 Special.

If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.

I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you remember being in the accident but you don't remember any of the details.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived!

I've always hated criminals and crime. Life is hard enough without someone walking into your life on purpose and making it worse.