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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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We 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
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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
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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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Child
abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”
-- Herbert Ward
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