Domestic Violence Quotes

I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.

All marriages are sacred, but not all are safe.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

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.

There are many women in their late teens and early twenties who have either experienced violence in a relationship or have witnessed it at home in their childhood.

There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.

It's so important to raise awareness of this problem that continues to affect 1 in 4 women at some point in their lifetime, regardless of career, wealth or background.

It's a subject that is often hidden and very secretive, but it's something which I feel should have a light shone upon it.

I spend my time on Crimewatch appealing for criminals on the run. Domestic violence is one of the few crimes I can think of where the victim is often forced to go on the run.

I will also continue to fight to provide better economic security for victims of domestic violence.

The Hideout is here to help you get through today and tomorrow. Be brave. It's not your fault. Remember, the road will get smoother and there is always hope that tomorrow will be better.

My mother and I are big domestic violence advocates.

Unfortunately, many children throughout the UK witness violence in the family home. Let's stand up for those children. Domestic violence needs to stop.

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.

A lot of people think that domestic violence is if someone hits, kicks, [or] punches you.

What we want is to make sure that people don't go through what I'm going through ... and we have to understand that even since Luke's death, children have been killed.

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

If [George] Zimmerman had been arrested for domestic violence, Trayvon Martin might still be alive.

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

Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man who will stand up against domestic violence.

When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.

We can all do something to help end domestic violence. A Real Man would never abuse his partner or children, and I am proud to put my name to the Women's Aid Real Man campaign.

The best protection against rape, stalking, and domestic violence is to raise men who both understand that women are different, and would never dare take advantage of this difference.

Women initiate most domestic violence.

Domestic violence isn't funny, especially if you live together.

The most brutal form of domestic violence is the violence against unborn children, and this particular bill would prohibit abortions after the fetus feels pain, which is 20 weeks and older.

I represent an affluent district, but when I worked to form my county's first battered-women's shelter, some nights there were no beds left. Violence against women crosses all economic lines.

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

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

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.

The thing about secrets is they keep you in a prison. Once you share, WHOOSH, there is a release.

That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.

Pregnant women are more likely to die from homicide by domestic violence than any other cause of death.

To help break the cycle of domestic violence, we must allow survivors to take time off from work without fear of losing their job, to go to court, to see a doctor or to find a safe place to live.

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

Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my mother was beaten and knocked unconscious while we dialed 911.

Domestic terrorism is alive and well in the USA and it is masquerading as “Progress”.

Men who hit do so because they can...someplace they enjoy or need to humiliate another. There is no love in violence, only control and domination.

Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.

his abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.

Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.

Sounds of depression remembering rejection Hope turns to despair black roses everywhereKeep hearing echoes voices in my mind repeating endless lies evil in disguise

I forgot to supannoyancefrom his glass full ofmingled dread and rageNow let me takea small draught of solacefrom my own little cupfull of predicaments!From the poem- Draught

Clouds of confusionrolled into illusionHe veils perversionforcing her coercionHer body he takeswhile she flies awayunbelievable, she's invisible

Suspicion of Abuse gets to your toes before you see it in your face.

Everybody's good when they're good, darling. You don't judge a person by that. It's how they act when things aren't good that tells you who they really are.

Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.

Threatening a current or former partner isn't passion, or love, or heartache. It's violence, it's abuse and it's a crime.

If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.