Domestic Violence Quotes

• Violence needs to stop. All of us - men and women - need to speak up and teach our children that violence is never the solution. Together we can all make a difference. The best place to start is with yourself.

  Will Young

  Children, Men, Together We Can

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• Women should know that love doesn't abuse you. It shouldn't hurt you. Love cannot be redefined into 'He only hit me once, I'll let it slide.' Love is happiness, not being neglectful, caring, being respectful, providing, having standards, kindness, standing up for the right things.

  Jahmene Douglas

  Hurt, Kindness, Caring

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• The effects of abuse are devastating and far-reaching. Domestic violence speaks many languages, has many colours and lives in many different communities.

  Sandra Pupatello

  Community, Abuse, Different

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

  Craig Scott

  Life, Wounds And Scars, Stories

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• 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.

  Matt Lanter

  Real, Men, Support

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

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Community, Culture

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• I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

  Rosie Batty

  Nice, Intelligent, People

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• Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Real, Home, School

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• Domestic violence can be so easy for people to ignore, as it often happens without any witnesses and it is sometimes easier not to get involved. Yet, by publicly speaking out against domestic violence, together we can challenge attitudes towards violence in the home and show that domestic violence is a crime and not merely unacceptable.

  Honor Blackman

  Attitude, Home, Together We Can

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

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Against Violence

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• Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

  Pearl Cleage

  War, Lines, Fronts

  Pearl Cleage (1993). “Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot”

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• All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.

  Rob Jackson

  Safe, Sacred, Violence

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• We all like to think that if we were the victims of domestic abuse we'd up and leave - but it's not always as easy or straightforward as that. Women stay with abusive partners for all kinds of reasons - they love them, they fear them, they have children with them, they believe they can change them or they simply have no where else to go.

  Kate Thornton

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• In violence, we forget who we are

  Mary McCarthy

  War, Who We Are, Forget

  On the Contrary (1961) "Characters in Fiction "

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

  Bill Cosby

  Future, Afterlife, Goal

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• ... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.

  Jane Green

  Waiting, Abuse, Patterns

  Jane Green (2002). “Bookends: A Novel”, p.188, Broadway Books

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• Women trapped in violent relationships need to know that there's no shame in talking out and walking out on their abusive partners.

  Kate Thornton

  Talking, Needs, Shame

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• 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.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Government, Leader, Political

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• I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.

  Leslie Morgan Steiner

  Next Steps, Finals, Patterns

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

  Ian Somerhalder

  Hurt, Real, Men

  "28 Famous Men Who Prove You Don’t Need To Be A Woman To Be A Feminist" By Alanna Vagianos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2014.

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• 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.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Pain, Love You, Emotional

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• Growing up, I was constantly reminded to not to air our family's dirty laundry. Part of why domestic violence is allowed to continue is because there is often an unwritten rule in many families of abuse: Don't ask. Don't tell. Keeping quiet does no good. I found that sharing my story liberated me from my past. There is power in storytelling and, in that, healing. Owning my truth also empowered me. I will no longer be manipulated or controlled by guilt or shame.

  Kambri Crews

  Growing Up, Dirty, Healing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It’s never too late to do the right thing.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Safe Haven, Too Late, Right Thing

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• When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

  Jim Costa

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

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• The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

  Wendy Shalit

  Men, Differences, Different

  Wendy Shalit (2000). “A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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