Quotes and Sayings About Domestic Violence

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 #Domestic Violence #Defense

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.
-- Alice Bag

#Domestic Violence #Turn The Other Cheek #Harder

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.
-- Anna Friel

#Careers #Domestic Violence #Important

These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
-- Anna Friel

#Giving #Domestic Violence #Needs

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

#Worry #Domestic Violence #Population

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.
-- Asha-Rose Migiro

#Commitment #Domestic Violence #Movement

Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.
-- Ashley Banjo

#Emotional #Abuse #Domestic Violence

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

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.
-- Barbara Boxer

#Mean #Support #Domestic Violence