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“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

“Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.”

“We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.”

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Book:Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

Source: Reasonable creatures: essays on women and feminism

“Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.”

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Author:Patrick Stewart

“Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon

“I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

“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.”

“Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.”

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Author:Carlos Andres Gomez

“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

“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

“I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.”

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Author:Lynn Woolsey

“Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.”

“We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon

“There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon

“I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be able to be a part of the 'Real Man' campaign against domestic violence. I studied domestic violence at university and feel passionately that we need to raise awareness of violence against women and children and refuse to ignore it. Just by speaking out against domestic violence and being supportive of those directly affected we can all make a positive difference.”

“I am delighted to be part of this Women's Aid campaign - the statistics are frightening. I've spent time with the victims of these cowardly acts, and it's heartbreaking. Everyday women and children are being abused in their own homes. I am standing up and saying that I am a Real Man, and that violence against women and children has to end.”

“When violence against women is no longer societally accepted, no longer kept secret; when everyone understands that even one case is too many. That's when it will change.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“It is an honor to be with thousands of leaders from around the world who are united in their mission to eradicate violence against women. Avon is proud to share their commitment to this goal. We are honored to be a leading supporter of the 2nd World Conference of Women's Shelters, and are grateful for the work that all of you do day in and day out to ensure that women across the world can find ways to live their lives free of violence.”

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Author:Andrea Jung

“The challenge of ending displacement is inseparable from the challenge of establishing and maintaining peace. When wars end, farmers return to their fields; children return to school; violence against women declines; trade and economic activity resume; medical and other services become more accessible, and the international focus changes from relief to development and self-sufficiency. All this makes new wars less likely. It is a virtuous cycle that deserves nurture and support.”

“We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.”

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Author:Jackson Katz

“The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.”

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Author:Tony Porter

“Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace”

“We have seen a man dragged to death in Texas simply because he was black. A young man murdered in Wyoming simply because he was gay. In the last year alone, we've seen the shootings of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Jewish children simply because of who they were. This is not the American way. We must draw the line. Without delay, we must pass the Hate Crimes Prevention Act and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. And we should reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.”

“As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.”

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Author:Charlotte Bunch

“Dancing insists we take up space, and though it has no set direction, we go there together. Dance is dangerous, joyous, sexual, holy, disruptive, and contagious and it breaks the rules. It can happen anywhere, at anytime, with anyone and everyone, and it's free. Dance joins us and pushes us to go further and that is why it's at the center of ONE BILLION RISING.”

“As an advocate to end violence against women, I have come to learn that the shame surrounding domestic violence is a barrier to talking about the issue. #‎ PurplePurse provides victims and those who support the cause with information and resources they need to take the necessary actions to break the vicious cycle with confidence.”

“Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”

“Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.”

“The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.”

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Author:Patricia Ireland

“Islam has no problem with women, but Muslims do clearly appear to have serious problems with them”

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Book:What I Believe

Source: What I Believe

“There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.”

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Author:Lee Maracle

“You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.”

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Author:Pat Benatar

“I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.”

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Author:Caprice Bourret

“A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be clear: I believe that Violence Against Women Act must be reauthorized.”

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Author:John Cornyn

“The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.”

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Author:John Cornyn

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