Richard King Quotes

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

I think violence against women in America has become ordinary - it's been made absolutely acceptable.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie.

Women are totally unsafe in Punjab.

All women and girls have the fundamental right to live free of violence. This right is enshrined in international human rights and humanitarian law. And it lies at the heart of my UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign.

In the State of Israel, there are still women who suffer mental and physical violence just because they are women. Many people suffer mental and physical violence, but there is a certain section of the population that harasses women because they are women, and we must fight this vigorously. Anyone who infringes on the rights of women or their freedom, or who works to discriminate against women, works against the principles and ideals of the State of Israel.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.

Violence against women is not inevitable.

Crimes against women are growing day by day. Despite this, the mindset of our leaders, politicians, or judicial system is not changing.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Hillary Clinton has a strong and powerful voice regarding ending violence against women and girls.

It is only with the passage of the Violence Against Women Act in 1994 that we have been able to put a dent in violence against women, and women have had a place to go.

You want to see a war on women? Come with me to Iraq and Afghanistan, folks. I've been there 35 times. I will show you what they do to women.

I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

The problem of “honor killings” is not a problem of morality or of ensuring that women maintain their own personal virtue; rather, it is a problem of domination, power and hatred of women who, in these instances, are viewed as nothing more than servants to the family, both physically and symbolically.

There is increasing recognition that violence against women is a major barrier to the fulfilment of human rights and a direct challenge to women's inclusion and participation in sustainable development and sustaining peace.

I personally believe that violence against women in our society is not going anywhere.

Violence against women is an appalling human rights violation. But it is not inevitable. We can put a stop to this.

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.