Joe Biden Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• 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

• 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.

• Some studies have shown close to 70 percent of men who are in prison have one of two things in common: One, they can't read. And two, they witnessed violence or were victims of violence as a child. You would think that if you had seen your mother get beaten when you were 10 years old, you'd never raise your hand to a woman. Not true. The prospect that you will increases dramatically if you witness violence. So it's so much bigger than just about women. It's about our society. It's about our culture. It's about who the hell we are.

  Joe Biden

  Mother, Children, Men

  Source: www.glamour.com

• It's amazing to me that no matter what city, what state, no matter where I am, a woman will come up to me and say "Thank you, thank you" for writing the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which funds services for victims and pushes to put more assailants behind bars.

  Joe Biden

  Writing, Violence, Victim

  Source: www.glamour.com

• Success will come when the societal attitude changes and not a single woman in America asks herself the question 'What did I do?'.

  Joe Biden

  Attitude, America, Domestic Violence

• I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.

  Joe Biden

  Care, Violence, Structure

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• This attitude of how society views women as chattel - that's the biggest thing to overcome. When I first started a stake in the issue of relationship abuse, I got really beat up by the Christian right because I was interfering in what was a personal family affair. It's a "family matter." That's why I wish we'd drop the phrase "domestic violence." It sounds like a domesticated cat. It is the most vicious of all crimes - to be abused by someone you had a relationship with! Because then you blame yourself.

  Joe Biden

  Christian, Attitude, Cat

  Source: www.glamour.com

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