100+ Sexual Assault Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.

- Judith Lewis Herman

source: Judith Lewis Herman (1997). “Trauma and Recovery”, p.8, Basic Books

topic: Order, Accountability, Silence, Perpetrators, Sexual Assault

quote in order to escape accountability for his crimes the perpetrator does everything in judith lewis herman Quotes

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

- Mariska Hargitay

topic: Domestic Violence, Violence, Assault, Sexual Assault

Sexual assault is neither a ‘light’ nor ‘fluffy’ matter, and we cannot treat it as if it were.

- Emma Sulkowicz

source: "Students Bring Out Mattresses In Huge ‘Carry That Weight’ Protest Against Sexual Assault" by Alexandra Svokos, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2014.

topic: Sexual Assault

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

- Barack Obama

topic: Men, Domestic Violence, Needs, Sexual Assault

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Men, People, Habit, Sexual Assault

There's a misconception about girls accusing people of sexual assault. There's this sense of, Well, she might be lying, she might be telling the truth, it's really a he-said, she-said. But it turns out if you study the cases, something like 97 percent of the cases are actually true. And you think about it common sense - wise: Why would a young girl or a woman bring this attention upon herself? It's nonsensical. It sets up a binary equation where, in fact, if a girl makes that accusation, she's usually not lying about it.

- Jon Shenk

topic: Girl, Wise, Lying, Binary, He Said She Said

Sexual assault has no place in the military. It is a violation of everything that the U.S. military stands for.

- Leon Panetta

source: "'Invisible War' Shines Light on Rape in the Military". abcnews.go.com.

topic: Military, Assault, Violation, Sexual Assault

Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.

- Claire McCaskill

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Thinking, Today, Used, Sexual Assault

Our profession is built on the bedrock of trust - the trust that must inherently exist among Soldiers, and between Soldiers and their leaders to accomplish their mission in the chaos of war. Recent incidents of sexual assault and sexual harassment demonstrate that we have violated that trust.

- Raymond T. Odierno

source: "The Time Is Now for Military Justice for Assault Victims" by Terry O’Neill, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2014.

topic: War, Military, Leader, Sexual Assault, Bedrock

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

- Catharine MacKinnon

source: Catharine A. MacKinnon (1996). “Only Words”, p.109, Harvard University Press

topic: Facts, Nonsense, Assault, Syllables, Sexual Assault

Just as it's painful to hear any woman talk about sexual assault, whether true or not, it's just as painful to watch my friend and mentor go through this.

- Malcolm-Jamal Warner

source: "Malcolm-Jamal Warner on Bill Cosby: 'It's Painful to Watch My Mentor Go Through This'". Interview with Joe Lynch, www.billboard.com. January 21, 2015.

topic: Mentor, Watches, Painful, Sexual Assault

My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

- Hilda Solis

topic: Niece, Animal, Domestic Violence, My Niece, Battered Women

Well, we've got a major effort under way to try to educate everybody, to let them know we have a zero tolerance policy where sexual assault is involved.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Zero, Military, Effort, Zero Tolerance, Sexual Assault

I have since talked to some of my girlfriends sexual assault and found out that they had their own experiences that they never shared at the time. It was never talked about it. And I think it's because of that normal response - you feel badly, you feel responsible, you feel guilty, you feel like you did something wrong, you feel ashamed.

- Kirsten Gillibrand

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Girlfriend, Thinking, Normal, Sexual Assault

At Ohio State University, to avoid being guilty of 'sexual assault' or 'sexual violence,' you and your partner now apparently have to agree on the reason WHY you are making out or having sex. It's not enough to agree to DO it, you have to agree on WHY: there has to be agreement 'regarding the who, what, where, when, why, and how this sexual activity will take place.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Sex, Ohio State University, Agreement, Ohio State, Sexual Assault

I don't know how I can feel safe with Donald Trump, who bragged about sexual assault having the most power of anyone in America, maybe the world. What does that say to every child, to every person who has been sexually assaulted, to every person in a domestic-violence situation, to anybody who has to report that kind of crime?

- Jennifer Pozner

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Children, America, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault

Domestic violence and sexual assault go hand in hand.

- Georgia Taylor

topic: Hands, Domestic Violence, Violence, Sexual Assault

I suppose I'll be remembered as dull. Timid. No one ever knew me. People came. They went. I was kind, I think. Not sympathetic, but considerate of others. I always gave up my place in line. I loaned out pencils and paper, or let people take them from me. I never reported a sexual assault.

- Julie Anne Peters

topic: Thinking, People, Paper, Sexual Assault

Typically, [a victim of sexual assault] go home, take a shower, call their best friend, and evidence is lost. They say, "I can handle it." And they let time pass. And then, either the guy starts harassing them again or they see him do it to somebody else. Having that power on the first day is so important.

- Kirsten Gillibrand

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Home, Guy, Important, Sexual Assault

I believe that sexual assault - if this is possible - was even more underreported when I was in school.

- Claire McCaskill

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Sexual Assault

Given the realities of the U.S. criminal justice system, the prosecution may be unable to salvage this case. But just because that system fails victims on the regular doesn't mean we have to, too. French commentators are already calling for DSK to jump back into the country's presidential race and ride a wave of sympathy into office. Really, theÂ stakes are greater than even that political prize.Â If we accept the narrative that only perfect women are raped, we risk sacrificing justice not only for this woman, but for victims of sexual assault everywhere.Â After all, nobody's perfect.

- Jaclyn Friedman

topic: Country, Mean, Sacrifice, Commentators, Criminal Justice System

There's something almost impossible about the criminal justice system when it comes to sexual assault cases. It immediately sets up a trial, where witnesses may have been drunk or maybe there were no witnesses and maybe there's no evidence.

- Jon Shenk

source: Source: www.mtv.com

topic: Justice, Drunk, Trials, Justice System, Sexual Assault

I will take on the epidemics of gun violence and campus sexual assault, so that everyone in America is safe and respected, no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

topic: Gun, America, Epidemics, Gun Violence, Sexual Assault

I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in (Military Justice Improvement Act) that is inconsistent with the responsibility or authority of command. Your efforts in this regard have much broader implications that will actually strengthen the 'good order and discipline' of our military, which I believe accounts for much of the resistance that S967 is receiving...Protecting the victims of these abuses and restoring American values to our military culture is long overdue.

- Dave McGinnis

topic: Military, Believe, Responsibility, Restoring, American Values

Violence against women is not random or anonymous. In West Virginia, 88 percent of sexual-assault victims already know their attacker. In my hometown, Alicia McCormick, an advocate for our domestic-violence shelter at the YWCA, was killed in her home by a man doing handiwork in her apartment complex. That one of my greatest advocates could fall victim to something she fought against her whole life was a tragedy that moved me to action.

- Shelley Moore Capito

topic: Fall, Home, Men, West Virginia, Handiwork

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature is not. Eliminating discrimination against women is important, but believing that women and men are born with indistinguishable minds is not. Freedom of choice is important, but ensuring that women make up exactly 50 percent of all professions is not. And eliminating sexual assaults is important, but advancing the theory that rapists are doing their part in a vast male conspiracy is not.

- Steven Pinker

topic: Believe, Men, Choices, Sexual Assault

Let's just be clear: The reason this has been making headlines is because Donald Trump was discussing and bragging about sexual assault 11 years ago on a bus.It's not Hillary Clinton who put those words in his mouth.

- Anderson Cooper

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Years, Mouths, Bragging, Sexual Assault

Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS

- Jewel

topic: Kids, Risk, Abuse, Sexual Assault

We've been told by the people on the other side who don't like the campus sexual assault movement that these are all "he-said, she-said" cases. Quite rightly, they say campus procedures are often very flawed, the investigation methods are not that good, and we aren't sure what we can trust. [Opponents say that] it seems like a lot to call somebody a rapist if they haven't gone to a criminal trial.

- Michele Landis Dauber

topic: People, Opponents, Sides, He Said She Said, Sexual Assault

I heard a statistic, and this one blew my mind, that 1 out of every 4 men in the church are involved in pornography. And yet, when was the last time you heard a pastor talk about pornography? ... Talk to people in law enforcement, and they will tell you that the great majority of sexual assaults were perpetrated by people that were looking at ***** and they wanted to make a reality what they were seeing in the pornography.

- Rafael Cruz

topic: Reality, Men, Law, Sexual Assault

Some of the morays have held on. When I was in school, I remember asking the question, "Why is it that whenever I walk into a fraternity there's alcohol everywhere and there's no alcohol in a sorority? Why is it that sororities won't allow alcohol, but fraternities do? What is that?" You know, nobody had a really good answer, and that's kind of held on. It's one of the issues that's being examined now - the role of alcohol in sexual assault.

- Claire McCaskill

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Sorority, Sexual Assault

It can be the level of sexual assault is relatively low. What was described on the plane by Ms. Leeds, it would very likely satisfy that definition. She said that he reached under her skirt and fondled and groped her. That type of thing would satisfy the definition for sexual assault.

- Megyn Kelly

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Levels, Definitions, Skirts, Sexual Assault, Leeds

"The New York Times" is reporting correctly that women had accused a presidential candidate of sexual assault. Now that's news on any level. I mean you can't argue that that's not news.

- Megyn Kelly

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: New York, Mean, Presidential, Sexual Assault, New York Times

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

- Ashley Greene

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Dating, Abuse, Foundation, Briefing, Cognizant

When prostitution is a crime, the message conveyed is that women who are sexual are "bad," and therefore legitimate victims of sexual assault. Sex becomes a weapon to be used by men.

- Margo St. James

topic: Sex, Men, Weapons, Courtesans, Sexual Assault

If anyone really thinks that I've ruined [sexual assault] reporting for women, I'm terribly sorry. And if anybody really thinks I'm clamouring for fame on the back of women who were assaulted, that's terrible.

- Lucy DeCoutere

topic: Sorry, Thinking, Fame, Sexual Assault

I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean, the danger that they're put in, the sexual assaults that are occurring - I mean, all of this is a great consternation, I think, for any of us. But when they come here and then they're dumped on our cities and our counties and our state is expected to pick up the costs, there's a point in time where you say, 'Quit giving these individuals incentives to come up and then be resettled in the United States'. That's the real issue for me.

- Rick Perry

source: "Perry sets the record straight on illegal immigrant kids: The President of the United States must deal with this". www.foxnews.com. May 08, 2012.

topic: Real, Mean, Kids, Consternation, Sexual Assault

The string of accusations being made against [Donald] Trump are raising new legal questions about some of these cases. Could actually be considered criminal sexual assault.

- Megyn Kelly

source: Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

topic: Criminals, Accusation, Made, Sexual Assault

The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.

- Louise Slaughter

topic: Jobs, Defense, Care, Better Jobs, Sexual Assault

Each campus should absolutely investigate the use of alcohol, the prevalence of alcohol, and its role in sexual assault. We know that predators will use alcohol as a weapon. We know they will use drugs as a weapon.

- Kirsten Gillibrand

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Alcohol, Drug, Roles, Sexual Assault