Violence Against Women Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Needs, Violence

  Source: www.elle.com

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

  Charlotte Bunch

  Rights, Government, Ideas

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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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• 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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• Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

  Herbert Ward

  Children, Abuse, Domestic 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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• Violence against women and girls is one of the most systematic and widespread human rights violations.

  Unknown

  Girl, Violence, Human Rights

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• If the numbers we see in domestic violence were applied to terrorism or gang violence, the entire country would be up in arms, and it would be the lead story on the news every night.

  Unknown

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• 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.

  Jackson Katz

  Men, Violence, Term

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• The violence perpetrated by men against women must stop - and it's up to men to stop it. It is up to men to speak up and step in when they witness violence against women, and it is up to men to condemn the indefensible actions of the few and assert the will of the many.

  Unknown

  Men, Violence, Action

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

  Gabrielle Union

  Mind, Wish, Would Be

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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

  Tariq Ramadan

  Islam, Serious, Problem

  Tariq Ramadan (2009). “What I Believe”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Marlo Thomas

  Women, Equality, Feminist

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• 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.

  Patrick Stewart

  Mother, Children, Powerful

  "Sir Patrick Stewart speaks out against domestic violence" by Caroline Siede, www.avclub.com. May 31, 2013.

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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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• ... 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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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Violence, Got Your Back

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