Best Domestic Violence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 8

“Domestic violence causes far more pain than the visible marks of bruises and scars. It is devastating to be abused by someone that you love and think loves you in return. It is estimated that approximately 3 million incidents of domestic violence are reported each year in the United States.”

“The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.”

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Author:Edouard Manet

“Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.”

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Book:My own story, Donahue

Source: My own story, Donahue

“The Violence Against Women Act protects the lives of tens of thousands of domestic violence victims. But the U.S. must also support gender equality around the world, and that means acknowledging that some nations we consider to be our friends are no friends to women.”

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Author:Barbara Boxer

“We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence”

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Author:Charles Clarke

“Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“As a Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM, I've learned that violence against women knows no boundaries. Join me in helping women worldwide who have suffered unthinkable violence.”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

“Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

“One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.”

“We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.”

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Author:Shakira

“The schools play an important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates.”

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Author:Shakira

“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”

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Author:Herbert Ward

“This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's.”

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Author:John Conyers

“As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.”

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Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“A real man wouldn't lay a finger on a woman. He treats his partner with respect, love and support. Men are physically stronger and have no place abusing that power. Everyone has problems, and arguments happen, but that's when a real man uses his intelligence to talk it out.”

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Author:Matt Lanter

“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”

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Author:Bill Cosby

“As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.”

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Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“Domestic violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately one in five female high school students reports being physically and sexually abused by a dating partner.”

“For most of recorded history, parental violence against children and men's violence against wives was explicitly or implicitly condoned. Those who had the power to prevent and/or punish this violence through religion, law, or custom, openly or tacitly approved it. .....The reason violence against women and children is finally out in the open is that activists have brought it to global attention.”

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Author:Riane Eisler

“Women are the victims of war... as widows they've faced the trauma of being single parents and livelihoods of families are affected. A lot of gender-related problems come up in terms of health, education, domestic violence, etc.”

“From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."”

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Author:Craig Scott

“All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.”

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Author:Rob Jackson

“They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.”

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Book:Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

“You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.”

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Book:Encouragements for the Emotionally Abused Woman: Wisdom and Hope for Women at Any Stage of Emotional Abuse Recovery

Source: Encouragements for the Emotionally Abused Woman: Wisdom and Hope for Women at Any Stage of Emotional Abuse Recovery

“...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!”

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Book:Alice in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

“Often things are as bad as they seem.”

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Author:Sheldon B. Kopp

“Many survivors insist they're not courageous: 'If I were courageous I would have stopped the abuse.' 'If I were courageous, I wouldn't be scared'...Most of us have it mixed up. You don't start with courage and then face fear. You become courageous because you face your fear.”

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Author:Laura Davies

“Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Men have an important role to play in sending out the message that real men do not hurt or abuse their partners.”

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Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Those of us who have the eyes and ears of the media have a responsibility to amplify the voices of the voiceless.”

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Author:Peter Gabriel

“One of the most basic things we can do is let the men in our lives know it's not okay to mistreat a woman.”

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Author:Tim McGraw

“But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose.”

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Author:Russell Wilson

“Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.”

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Author:Alice Bag

“It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.”

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Author:Anna Friel

“These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.”

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Author:Anna Friel

“Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I've seen this over and over in America, too.”

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Author:Barbara Lee

“In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.”

“Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.”

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Author:Bob Riley

“A friend of mine was married to an assistant church pastor who regularly beat her up. He was smart ?- he'd do it in a way that the bruises didn't show. For the longest time, she dealt with it. Who would believe the minister was a wife beater?! Meanwhile, my friend ? - An attorney! ? - Suffered in silence.”

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Author:Carolyn Maloney

“I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of there. I have no regrets.”

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Author:Bob Casey, Jr.

“It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.”

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Author:Colin Greenwood

“Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.”

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Author:David Schneider

“The biggest challenge is to convince a woman that it's not her fault. My daughter is 25; my stepdaughter is 22. As a mother, I want them to know that if a boyfriend is abusive, you cannot ignore it ?- 'Oh, he's been drinking,' or 'He had a bad day.' There is no excuse for a man hitting a woman. Ever.”

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Author:Debbie Stabenow

“Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.”

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Author:Deborah Pryce

“We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.”

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Author:Diane Birch

“For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality.”

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Author:Fay Ripley

“It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.”

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Author:Fern Britton

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