Family Violence Quotes:

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

- Rosie Batty

topic: Pain, Dad, Sadness, Family Violence

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

- Rosie Batty

topic: Believe, Epidemics, Doors, Long Way To Go, Family Violence

As a society how do we do better and stop things like this happening time after time!! I’m so sorry to these families. Violence is not the answer people. Retaliation isn’t the solution as well.

- LeBron James

source: FaceBook post by LeBron James from Nov 25, 2014

topic: Sorry, People, Answers, Family Violence, Retaliation

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

source: Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

topic: Children, Home, Might, Might Makes Right, Parental

We have reached a pivotal time in Indigenous affairs when for the first time, national attention is being paid to the horror of Indigenous family violence in this country. For the first time, an Australian Prime Minister has held a summit in the national capital to listen to concerns and ideas on this issue from a group of Indigenous leaders.

- Jackie Huggins

topic: Country, Ideas, Australia, Family Violence, Indigenous

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

- Rosie Batty

topic: Nice, Intelligent, People, Family Violence

The television screen is the lens through which most children learn about violence. Through the magnifying power of this lens, their everyday life becomes suffused by images of shootings, family violence, gang warfare, kidnappings, and everything else that contributes to violence in our society. It shapes their experiences long before they have had the opportunity to consent to such shaping or developed the ability to cope adequately with this knowledge.

- Sissela Bok

source: "Mayhem – Violence as Public Entertainment, Part I". "The Open Mind" with Richard Heffner, www.thirteen.org. March 4, 1998.

topic: Children, Opportunity, Long, Family Violence, Magnifying

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

- Leslie Morgan Steiner

source: "Commentary: Rihanna may not be alone" by Leslie Morgan Steiner, www.cnn.com. February 18, 2009.

topic: Criminals, Needs, Violence, Perpetrators, Culpability

Let's start calling family violence 'terrorism' and then maybe we will start to see that investment of funding applied to where it needs to be.

- Rosie Batty

topic: Needs, Calling, Violence, Family Violence