Best Violence Against Women Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.”

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Author:Salma Hayek

“Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.”

“If you push me, I'll shove, I'm masculine. When she wants to play rough, I'm masculine.”

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Author:Meat Loaf

“We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.”

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Author:Angelique Kidjo

“The White Ribbon Foundation is organization I support. They're bringing awareness of violence against women and I think it's important in our society.”

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Author:Dustin Clare

“The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.”

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Author:Zainab Salbi

“It seems to me that violence against women has been tolerated for so long that the world has become numb to it.”

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Author:Zainab Salbi

“Unfortunately, violence against women is not the only injustice women face globally; it is one of the many inequalities that impede the full development of socially excluded women globally.”

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Author:Zainab Salbi

“Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Show me pornography which promotes violence against women, and I'll buy it.”

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Author:Jim Goad

“I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic violence and violence against women, this felt like such a tangible way to make a difference.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.”

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Author:Michelle Bachelet

“Violence against women is clearly not solved, not at all solved, and the reasons for it, which are controlling women's bodies in order to control reproduction, are definitely not solved.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“We need to take violence against women seriously. It is the biggest indicator of whether a country is violent inside itself, and whether it will be militarily violent against another country.”

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Author:Gloria Steinem

“Violence against women and lack of intervention and man's inhumanity to man and this kind of atrocities are going on. These are big issues of our times, we must speak about them, we must learn how to better understand how these things happen so we can address them.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“The work that I've been trying to do with violence against women and children comes from seeing quite a bit of violence. I just think it's important that we try to help the young boys who are watching the fathers do it - because if it's OK for the fathers to do it, then these young boys are watching their dads and going, well, nothing's happening to them, so maybe this is OK. But actually, this violence needs to stop in the sandpits.”

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Author:Kelly LeBrock

“Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."”

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Author:Gillian Anderson

“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.”

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Author:Denise Scott Brown

“When people were very concerned about the violence against women, I encouraged people to stick with it because it was going somewhere and there was a reason why. It's all a commentary on gender roles and women and having to be the damsel or to stay on the ranch or to stay at home.”

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Author:Evan Rachel Wood

“I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“We have to bridge and join our struggles and understand how we can't fight violence against women without looking at racism, we can't fight violence against women without looking at economic deprivation or climate change. All these struggles are interconnected.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“My wish for the world would be to end violence against women. My wish for myself would be for peace of mind.”

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Author:Gabrielle Union

“The early feminist argument that violence against women is not inherently a private matter, but has been privatized by the sexist structures of the state, the economy, and the family has had a powerful impact on public consciousness.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“It's a bad thing that happens to women, but when you look at that term 'violence against women,' nobody is doing it to them. It just happens to them. Men aren't even a part of it.”

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Author:Jackson Katz

“We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.”

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Author:Jackson Katz

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

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Author:Margaret Mead

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.”

“Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.”

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Author:Jessica Valenti

“Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.”

Source: Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition

“Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.”

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Author:Charlotte Bunch

“He had heard her say, so many times, that a society that approved of making abortion illegal was a society that approved of violence against women; that making abortion illegal was simply a sanctimonious, self-righteous form of violence against women- it was just another way of legalizing violence against women, Nurse Caroline would say.”

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Author:John Irving

“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.”

“Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.”

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Author:Charlotte Bunch

“Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.”

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Author:Jackson Katz

“I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon

“As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You will never be alone. You are never alone. We have your back. I've got your back.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“... the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don't raise boys to be men, we raise them not be women (or gay men). We teach boys that girls and women are "less than" and that leads to violence by some and silence by many. It's important for men to stand up to not only stop men's violence against women but, to teach young men a broader definition of masculinity that includes being empathetic, loving and non-violent.”

“The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.”

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Author:Jeff Bridges

“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”

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