Violence Against Women Quotes

• Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Rights, Long

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• Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Girl, Attitude

  "Sam Smith Wins 4 Grammy Awards, Including Song Of The Year". wwno.org. February 9, 2015.

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• Violence against women is an everyday reality, act now, always, and forever before its too late.

  Unknown

  Reality, Forever, Everyday

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• It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

  Jeff Bridges

  Powerful, Men, Violence

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• There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Community, Domestic Violence

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• It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Girl, Powerful

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• I firmly believe today that the only way to stop violence against women is to speak out and refused to be silenced.

  Zainab Salbi

  Believe, Speaks Out, Today

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

  Pat Benatar

  Love You, Flesh, Pay

  Song: Hell is for Children, Album: Best Shots

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• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wise, Peace, Military

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.

  Samantha Power

  Fighting, Criminals, Violence

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• Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Domestic Violence

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• We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

  Katha Pollitt

  Epidemics, Feminist, Trying

  Katha Pollitt (1995). “Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism”, Vintage

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• Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Rights, Culture Religion, Violence

  "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

  Lee Maracle

  Native American, Connections, Earth

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• Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

  Margaret Mead

  Time, Women, Bad Ass

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in "La Abogada" newsletter, Volume 3, by International Federation of Women Lawyers (p. 5), 1967.

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• Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.

  Patrick Stewart

  Profound, Promise, Allies

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• We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Government, Leader, Political

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• 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

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• The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

  Jimmy Carter

  Girl, Powerful, Abuse

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• Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Hate

  "Where do we go from here: Chaos or community?". Book by Martin Luther King, 1967.

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• Unless men are active allies, we'll never end violence against women and girls.

  Eve Ensler

  Girl, Men, Allies

  "The Saturday interview: Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2011.

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• Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world.

  Unknown

  Abuse, Violence, World

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• Violence against women can end only when the culprits get punished.

  Mukhtar Ma'i

  Violence, Ends, Culprit

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• Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.

  Carlos Andres Gomez

  Powerful, Men, Violence

  "Men: we can start a movement to stop violence against women" by Carlos Andrés Gómez, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2013.

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  I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Life, Strong Women, Independent

  "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

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