Violence Quotes - Page 11

• Recently, I was in Africa monitoring elections when right on the street, this guy started beating a woman. I got out of my car, pulled her inside and drove her to the hospital. But after the doctors treated her, she was too afraid to press charges. I've seen this over and over in America, too.

  Barbara Lee

  America, Doctors, Car

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• Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

  Bob Riley

  Justice, Effort, Domestic Violence

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• Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during their lifetime, including elder abuse, child abuse, gang-related violence, sexual abuse, and domestic violence.

  David Schneider

  Children, Numbers, Domestic Violence

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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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• From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

  Simon Schama

  Challenges, Revolution, Facts

  Simon Schama (2004). “Citizens: A Chronicle of The French Revolution”, p.728, Penguin UK

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• I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Fighting, Domestic Violence, Economic

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• It is difficult to get Latina and Asian women to speak out. We must make it clear it's not their problem, it's our problem. We need magazines like this one to keep talking about the issue. And know that we women in Congress are with you 100 percent.

  Juanita Millender-McDonald

  Speaks Out, Talking, Issues

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• To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Jobs, Doctors, Domestic Violence

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• It's still hard for me to talk about the day I visited a shelter for children who were victims of a domestic-violence household. The kinds of abuse they had suffered, and what it had done to them physically and emotionally ?- I don't have words for what I saw. This has to stop.

  Michael Dean Crapo

  Children, Abuse, Domestic Violence

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• Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.

  Deborah Pryce

  Mother, Growing Up, Domestic Violence

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• Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.

  Beverley Knight

  Home, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Abuse, Domestic Violence, Weapons

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• Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.

  Georgia Taylor

  Hands, Domestic Violence, Assault

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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, Domestic Violence

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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, Domestic Violence, Needs

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• When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

  Reggie Yates

  Home, Forever, Domestic Violence

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• Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

  Shaun Wright-Phillips

  Children, Home, Domestic Violence

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• 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.

  Shelley Moore Capito

  Fall, Home, Men

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• I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. But I just closed my eyes, and took a blind leap. I knew I had to get out of there.

  Bob Casey, Jr.

  Heart, Eye, Ideas

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• There were no hundreds and hundreds of cases of domestic violence. I would have no knowledge of that or have any idea how I would authenticate that. That was never the intent of the writer's conversation with me.

  Jerry Angelo

  Ideas, Domestic Violence, Conversation

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• It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Children, Real, Home

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• We're number one in domestic violence homicides. We also have a high rate of alcohol abuse and drug abuse and there's a high lethality rate when you get those factors involved, so the shelter has 52 beds, certainly it is never empty.

  Diane Birch

  Numbers, Alcohol, Drug

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• Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person.

  June Sarpong

  Strong, Believe, Domestic Violence

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• Children are amazing. Believe in yourself and stay strong. And remember that there are people out there who can help you when things get tough.

  Stephen Mulhern

  Stay Strong, Children, Believe

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• It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you're not alone and there are people out there who can support you.

  Neil Buchanan

  Fighting, Support You, Remember You

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