Sentences with phrase «quiet about abuse»

«It's not because they're bad men or want kids to be harmed,» said Anderson, speculating about the motives of top officials at Penn State and the church who allegedly kept quiet about abuse allegations, «but because they want to preserve the reputation of the institutions.»

Amanda Spielman, in an interview with The Times, says she will not keep quiet about the abuse she has received since criticising some faith schools.

I agree, it's not acceptable to keep quiet about abuse in a church.

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As one who has been through the living hell of spiritual abuse in my old church there is no way I can keep quiet about those who abuse church members.

Furthermore, by characterizing allegations of child abuse as a sad case of «disunity» and «strife» within the church and urging his fellow Christians not to ask too many questions about the situation, Challies only perpetuates the painfully common narrative that those who raise concerns about abuse in churches are troublemakers, out to sow disunity and dissention, and that we are wise to keep this matters quiet.

obviously you'd need to keep quiet about the «deception, abuse and slavery»...

The part I feel ashamed about, is for many years I sat quiet, and saw some very serious abuses take place by leaders.

Pastor Tim Challies has argued that «thinking biblically» about the SGM lawsuit — which alleges that the leadership of SGM covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person — means keeping quiet about it in order to avoid «gossip.»

12:15 am (20th)-- TCM — Broken Blossoms A few years after D.W. Griffith's controversial Birth of a Nation and epic Intolerance, he made this much smaller, much quieter film about a Chinese man (the non-Chinese Richard Barthelmess — and no, Griffith has not quite got over the racism that plagued Birth of a Nation) who becomes enamored with a young girl (Lillian Gish) whose father abuses her.