Quotes on Domestic Violence

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

Growing up, I thought my grandfather was dead. Later, I learned he was alive, but my family pretended he didn't exist because of the terrible way he'd abused my grandmother and my mother. He did things like shave my grandmother's head and lock her in a closet. With my mother's help, my grandmother finally left him.

But think about how evil that is for one man to think that he's actually more valuable than a woman, because as a human being your worth is immeasurable.

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 sexually abused by a dating partner.

Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.

Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.

This is not love. It is a crime... You can't look the other way just because you have not experienced domestic violence with your own flesh.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.

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.

Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors

I want to tell people that family violence happens to anybody, no matter how nice your house is, no matter how intelligent you are.

Men must teach each other that real men do not violate or oppress women - and that a woman's place is not just in the home or the field, but in schools and offices and boardrooms.

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.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.