Quotes on Harassment

Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

Safe working conditions, fair wages, protection from forced labor, and freedom from harassment and discrimination - these must become standard global operating conditions.

If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don't notice is infinitely worse.

So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

Do you know how many women in a survey reported experiences of sexual harassment on the job? Eighty percent. It is so common. It's normalized. And it's an abuse of power.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

I don't think that every single case of sexual harassment has to result in someone being fired; the consequences should vary. But we need a shift in culture so that every single instance of sexual harassment is investigated and dealt with. That's just basic common sense.

All together now: Women don't cause sexual harassment, harassers do.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.