Stop Violence Against Women Quotes

• 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, Domestic Violence

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

  Charlotte Bunch

  Racism, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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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, Domestic Violence

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• 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

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Rights, Long

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• 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.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Abuse

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

  Shakira

  Play, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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

  Salma Hayek

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• 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.

  Joe Biden

  Girl, Powerful, Men

  "Federal Effort Targets Sexual Assaults At Colleges". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 5, 2011.

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• ... 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.

  Don McPherson

  Girl, Powerful, Gay

  Interview with Jeff Pearlman, www.jeffpearlman.com. April 21, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jackson Katz

  Children, Powerful, Men

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

  Zainab Salbi

  Long, World, Violence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Caprice Bourret

  Charity, Violence, Violence Against Women

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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

  Carlos Andres Gomez

  Powerful, Men, Violence

  "Men: we can start a movement to stop violence against women" by Carlos Andrés Gómez, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2013.

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• 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.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Domestic Violence, Ambassadors

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• 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.

  Riane Eisler

  Children, Women, Law

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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.

  Barbara Boxer

  Mean, Support, Domestic Violence

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

  Charles Clarke

  Responsibility, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women.

  Don McPherson

  Boys, Men, Realizing

  Interview with Jeff Pearlman, www.jeffpearlman.com. April 21, 2011.

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• 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.

  Zainab Salbi

  Development, Faces, Violence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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

  Salma Hayek

  Thinking, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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

  Angelina Jolie

  Choices, Groups, Weapons

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• 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.

  Salma Hayek

  Expression, Domestic Violence, Way

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• With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

  Jenny Shipley

  Adoption, Community, Messages

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• I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

  Helen Garner

  Violence, Disturbed, Violence Against Women

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