Domestic Violence Quotes - Page 7

• I wanted to take part in this campaign because it's so easy to forget the many women who live their lives in fear because of domestic violence. 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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• The Violence Against Women Act has been a true bipartisan success story since it was first enacted in 1994. In my home state of Texas alone, its programs have helped hundreds of thousands of victims to break free from the terrible cycle of domestic violence.

  John Cornyn

  Home, Texas, Firsts

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• As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and dangers to which no possible limits can be assigned, the power of making that provision ought to know no other bounds than the exigencies of the nation and the resources of the community.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Community, Defense, Limits

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2007). “The Federalist Papers”, p.231, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Domestic violence is a societal problem, not just the NFL's. A lot of the guys felt misunderstood - just because one guy did something to his partner didn't mean they were all like that. We need to help our guys not just be better players, but better people, and to do that, we need to put more into helping them understand difficult relationship situations or miscommunication, rather than addressing only the punishment. The guys felt comfortable talking to me about stuff. They knew I have a doctorate in psychology, so they'd find me and say, "Can I borrow you for a sec"?

  Jennifer Welter

  Mean, Player, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Childhood depression tends to be more common in inner cities, being most frequently related to serious social deprivation, bullying, domestic violence, wartime experience and famine. It is, for example, a serious problem among children who are traumatised refugees.

  Robert Winston

  Bullying, Children, Cities

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• An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Trust, Insult To Injury, Comeback

  Letters to His Son, 9 Oct. 1746

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• Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed the distortions about domestic violence promoted by extreme, manhating feminism through the vehicle of deeply dodgy 'research'.

  Melanie Phillips

  Lying, Hate, Men

  "Demenised!". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 13, 2003.

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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

  Women, Ambassadors, Helping

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• Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Assault, Difficult, Violence

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• Russian law on banning nontraditional relationships basically says you cannot have any portrayal, neutral or positive, of homosexual relationships or nontraditional families, period. And you also cannot have negative portrayals of heterosexual relationships. So along the way, the law completely quashes any kind of public discussion on domestic violence. No discussion of relationships at all, unless you want to showcase a heterosexual love story, that preferably involves reproduction.

  Masha Gessen

  Negative, Kind, Love Story

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• During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.

  Sal Albanese

  Teacher, New York, Stress

  "Education’s Elephant in the Room: Poverty" by Sal F. Albanese, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I don't know how I can feel safe with Donald Trump, who bragged about sexual assault having the most power of anyone in America, maybe the world. What does that say to every child, to every person who has been sexually assaulted, to every person in a domestic-violence situation, to anybody who has to report that kind of crime?

  Jennifer Pozner

  Children, America, World

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

  Edouard Manet

  Spring, Broken, People

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• In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

  Catherine Wilson

  Europe, Punishment, America

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Sarah Palin, suggesting her son`s arrest on domestic violence charges was a result of post-traumatic stress disorder and partially due to President Obama`s lack of respect for men and women in uniform.

  Chris Hayes

  Stress, Son, Men

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dog, Husband, Night

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• When food becomes scarce, refugees often turn to desperate measures to feed themselves and their families. We are particularly worried about the health of the refugee population, domestic violence and refugees resorting to illegal employment or even to prostitution, just to put enough food on the table.

  Antonio Guterres

  Desperate Measures, Worry, Tables

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• I've been doing this work [ambassador of VDay]for a long time, and there are so many ways that we have to work to eradicate domestic violence and violence against women, this felt like such a tangible way to make a difference.

  Kerry Washington

  Differences, Long, Making A Difference

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• My mom was a housewife, and wasn't somebody that people would think of as a feminist, and when Ms. Magazine came out we were incredibly inspired by it. I used to cut pictures out of it and make posters that said, "Girls can do anything", and stuff like that, and my mom was inspired to work at a basement of a church doing anti-domestic violence work. Then she took me to the Soidarity Day thing, and it was the first time I had ever been in a big crowd of women yelling, and it really made me want to do it forever.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Mom, Cutting

  BUST, 2000.

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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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• It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.

  Lionel Shriver

  Real, Nice, Passion

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.196, Counterpoint Press

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• Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero

  Nev Schulman

  Hero, Might, Hey

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• Women initiate most domestic violence.

  Dov Charney

  Violence, Initiate

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• I have been working with Women's Aid since 2003 when I became the charity's first Ambassador, and am so pleased to be able to be a part of the 'Real Man' campaign against domestic violence. I studied domestic violence at university and feel passionately that we need to raise awareness of violence against women and children and refuse to ignore it. Just by speaking out against domestic violence and being supportive of those directly affected we can all make a positive difference.

  Will Young

  Children, Real, Men

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• Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.

  Georgia Taylor

  Hands, Assault, Hand In Hand

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