Violence Against Women Quotes

• Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

  Samantha Power

  Fighting, Criminals, Violence

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• Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

  Mukhtar Ma'i

  Violence, Ends, Culprit

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• Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

  Unknown

  Reality, Forever, Everyday

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

  Jeff Bridges

  Powerful, Men, Violence

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Girl, Powerful

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• Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Girl, Attitude

  "Sam Smith Wins 4 Grammy Awards, Including Song Of The Year". wwno.org. February 9, 2015.

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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, Domestic Violence

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• Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

  Eve Ensler

  Girl, Men, Allies

  "The Saturday interview: Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2011.

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• 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.

  Patrick Stewart

  Profound, Promise, Allies

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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

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

  Pat Benatar

  Love You, Flesh, Pay

  Song: Hell is for Children, Album: Best Shots

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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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• I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, War

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

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

  Zainab Salbi

  Believe, Speaks Out, Today

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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

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• 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.

  Joe Biden

  Secret, Violence, Accepted

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• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Girl, Powerful, Abuse

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

  Jackson Katz

  Men, Violence

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• 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.

  Jackson Katz

  Change, Strength, Courage

  "Violence against women — it's a men's issue". TEDxFiDiWomen, www.ted.com. November 2012.

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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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