QUOTES
Ending
Violence Against Women & Children
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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. For example, domestic violence is not regarded as a crime
in Saudi Arabia. The United States should not have 'normal' relations with nations
that treat women as second-class citizens."
-- Senator
Barbara Boxer |
Nobody believes that
domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This
world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children
see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights
to children.”
-- Denise Brown
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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
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can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our
friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence”
-- Charles Clarke
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
--
Bill Cosby |
"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
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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 “Domestic
violence does not only happen to adults. Forty percent of girls age 14 to 17 report
knowing someone their age who has been hit or beaten by a boyfriend, and approximately
one in five female high school students reports being physically and/or sexually
abused by a dating partner.”
-- Dianne Feinstein "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."
-- Rep. Mark Green No
woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not
alone.
-- Salma Hayek Every
woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are
many more.
-- Salma Hayek If
you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It
is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
--
Salma Hayek 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
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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 Violence
against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable.
We can put a stop to this.
-- Nicole
Kidman “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 | 
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There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children,
and no greater failing on our part than to allow them to be subjected to violence,
abuse or exploitation.
-- Jessica
Lange |
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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
"The schools play an
important role when it comes down to protecting children against violence.Violence
is one of the principal reasons why children don't go to school. It's also one
of the causes of the alarming school dropout rates."
--
Shakira
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"We know that many boys and girls leave school because of poverty, because they
have to work. However, there are an important number of children who abandon their
studies because of the abuses they're subject to by teachers and their own parents."
-- Shakira
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abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
-- Herbert Ward MORE
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